It's called Kodi. It's a media centre that organizes and displays a library of your own, locally stored (on a NAS or external hard drive) video files.
It can be extended with add-ons for example for watching YouTube, but of course there are also some piracy add-ons, which Kodi itself doesn't condone, but can't do anything against
I would agree, if it wasn't a lost fight already. I mostly stopped buying physical when I realized that it's now normal that the intended version doesn't ship on disk, and I won't be able to play the "real version" in the future anyways, once the console can't receive updates anymore.
My plan is to simply pirate games I bought and hope for either jail breaks or emulators for my consoles
It's a glorified website. I don't see anyone being afraid of infecting their devices by simply visiting a url
I guess they try to match the quality of the cesspool that is their comment section