I am a VLC user for... oh boy ages of "decades". To me it was always the very best, lighter, compatible and useful media player. Keep in mind I also am not a update maniac, I just update in the face of a public exploit, considerable features improvement, etc. Usually once or twice a year.
In my last update, which I did because of the (https://www.cert-bund.de/advisoryshort/CB-K19-0634) vuln was a downer And apparently it is still going on!. The app that use to be fast, virtually "crashless", fast it is now buggy as hell, not to mention the vuls . Freezes all the time when loading from a network share, freezes to resume playing, the ui update was a disaster (to me) as overlays MUST be black, brown is ugly, and brown with less opacity is even uglier. A disaster!
It is time for a new player! Maybe one day when things get better I'll come back and resume my usage of VLC. For now VLC is gonner.