This release seems to close the gap between MPC-HC and VLC on the subtitles and hardware decoding fronts.

Personally, I don’t like to mess around configuring and installing plugins for my media player. I only have that kind of time for Vim. With VLC, all I have to do is install it. With MPC-HC or mpv, I gotta write config files, troll forums for guides to install things like MadVR, run unsigned software, mess around in cmd.exe... It feels so not worth it, especially compared to the Netflix.com experience.