Your take on this is very ill informed and your tone highly annoying; from your post I get that you do not have a lot of experience beyond reading a few forums here and there about how this stuff works.

Actually, no. and please don't make assumptions just to say that I'm wrong in my opinion or you don't agree with. I also work in IT and also know about those things.

My stance on this is that I don't want that someone else has control over the client that is on my device. In a business setting, this works because those clients usually are also not your own or you are approving that the company/business can do this or you have some form of contract.

From my initial post, I was annoyed about this feature because lately plex is more pushing in this direction even with the new home screen too, on the one hand, allow the server administrator to configure the client dashboard but on the other hand, it is just a generalization. Every user will now see that and I, as a user, are now dead in the water and have to view that too. I would think that the "total control" would not be much different in this regard. And I'm against that. I would still want to be able to have a say in what the client displays or behaves.

Being able to remotely configure a client might make sense but not the "eat or die, everyone and everything gets it now" kind of mentality.

But I don't see plex implementing a way for you, as the administrator, to configure every single client individually so a more generalized way would be the way to go, as I said, as they already do with the managed dashboard.