There are non-scam, usually private services that provide pirated content for a small fee in exchange for a much more convenient way of getting content.

Like, a service that gets you real 4K, HDR10, DoVi, whatever with all the different languages and also all in your one favourite TV app of choice. No region lock, no ads, too.

As all that streaming should have been from the beginning.

I see why they ask money and have no problem with paying for such service. They do have to pay for storage and bandwidth somehow.

Well, hardware-designed dock station would work, sure. They don’t require any additional software. For example, for M1 MacBook Air with MacOS there are two options: HW docks would work out of the box, no software or tinkering needed. But you are limited with only one external display (Apple decided so). SW docks (DisplayLink) work great and give you multiple displays and stuff, but require drivers. And also after reboot you have to log in before dock can launch its software companion. Also, since it’s software, OS updates can cause malfunction and/or incompatibility. I expect situation be more or less the same with all OS.

That’s true for any OS though. DisplayLink dock is software dock and must have proper drivers installed to work.