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There was no reason for this in the first place in my opinion. The ONLY positive use I can see would be managing the whole arr stack from one place, but I imagine you would still need to manage individual shows\movies\whathaveyou if it wasn't found in the first place.
I have my stacks set up to auto upgrade and find missing stuff already. It's literally built into their programming. I manage them individually and anything that isn't found on my indexers I typically go out and find manually as needed (old or very obscure media).
Not really sure what this bought anyone at all other than an extra layer of convenience?
And Seerr will kinda manage at least Radarr and Sonarr requests for you. I barely touch those now that they're configured. I did always find it odd that Sonarr and Radarr were separate apps. Lidarr and Readarr I could see.