Still my preferred media player as a windows user, been using it for over a decade at this point. There was a time an MPC-HC setup required a lot of plugins (or bulky codec packs) but now all you need is MadVR, and a subtitle renderer (I like xy-subfilter) and you're good. Doesn't really have the utility of VLC or MPV but the playback quality is fantastic with MadVR.