“The empire?” LOL I urge you to look at the TLD of my home instance. The only imperialism here is from the terrorist whose propaganda you posted.

Source: a terrorist

My understanding is that it is fixable by just implementing a couple of APIs, but Artix barely has the resources to fix their own init system, so they aren’t able to support such compatibility.

No you haven’t. The security is the Jellyfin login prompt, then Jellyfin itself, then the Jellyfin container, and if you’re really paranoid, that container won’t be in your LAN.

Using Plasma Wayland on Debian sounds like you’re deliberately setting yourself up for a lot of pain.