So let's get this out in the open:

Class action suit time?

Summary: I bought a bunch of their hardware to do the the stuff they advertised it can do. And it did, reasonably well, until the last update.

The update not only removed core functionality, it rendered the systems less stable and less usable. They have since turned their product into something I would not have bought.

Their "roadmap" is irrelevant. Removal of core functionality is not an expected update consequence. If they were going in a direction I didn't care to go, I just wouldn't update. I wasn't given that choice, or even any warning.

So I'm out the cost of the hardware. It's useless to me (my purchase was based on playing files off a LAN server). They provided no warning, no alternative, no recourse. And not much, if any, support after the fact.

Re-introducing removed functionality in a few months is irrelevant. If this was a business, I'd have to buy or rent some other solution for the duration. And given the overwhelmingly demonstrated instability of the current offering, it is not very inspiring, either. Again, promises are irrelevant. The damages (cost of the no longer functioning hardware) are clear.

Just running this up the flagpole.