I mean, I'm able to spin up a new instance of a media center like plex, give it my entire library to scan and identify at once, walk away while it works, and never once had to worry that I'm going to get banned. To address the point about multiple applications, I've now had to set it up so that plex...

Same issue. I've never encountered this issue using anidb in Plex, nor in Jellyfin. But as soon as I pay for filebot and start to use it, within an hour I'm banned from anidb and have lost functionality not only in filebot. If I google "AniDB filebot banned" I immediately see a half dozen ...