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Just to add to what you just said. Eternity 0.2.1 “release is functionally identical to v0.2.0”
The main issue seems to be the instance you’re (OOP) currently on. If you do not want to migrate or want to wait to see if things will get resolved you can always browse in “anonymous” mode with a different instance than beehaw.
The quality of the tool. Newpipe is mainly here to watch content. Sure, it has the ability to download said content but not in a granular manner.
Its like climbing mountains in cheap sandals or doing digital paintings in paint. Yt-dlp has a lot of options to get exactly what you want. Seal gives a simple interface which in itself has a bit more than what Newpipe has. The real power of Seal comes from the custom commands. Said commands being the ones you would use in your terminal or scripts using yt-dlp directly without a frontend.
To top it off, Seal can download everything yt-dlp allows you to download. It is not limited to the few sites that Newpipe support.