This is the right way, but you will have to deal with FOSS devotees grumbling because your software doesn’t meet the OSI’s definition of open source.

I’m torn; ideologically I like the idea of “open means open,” but in practice that seems to result in corporations taking endlessly from FOSS while giving little to nothing back (or giving nothing but bug reports). How do projects like Blender get away with it?

Batocera, perhaps? It’s essentially ES-DE as a distro plus Kodi, which can interface with Jellyfin using a plugin.

It’s not too uncommon for journals to include op-eds critical of the journal itself. Usually the author is responding to a previously published article (hence the “op”), but they can also criticize the journal’s practices or call for broader change in the industry.