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Right when S2 came out, If you needed to go in and screw with anything they would force you off of S1 into S2.
Right when the app released it was pretty bad. They broke the integrations. Speakers were having a lot of trouble being added. My SL ones were just appear and disappear randomly for a bit. It took them like a month to sort it out.
But 99% of my use cases are audio over ARC, and playing music in one kid's room every night. The arc never stopped working for me on my beam 2.
When the sl-one dropped off I just used an echo for about a week. Plex was broken for two separate 1 weeks bands during which I also just used the echo.
I think it didn't bother me all that much because I'm already presenting to home automation, and any of my cloud immigrations just explode every time a company farts.
I'd love some speakers that allow streaming without having to be cloud-controlled. I'm afraid I'd have to make them myself.