I had the same idea a couple years back and even though I would love something that you download and just run and it would work, I realized that in order to get a decent adoption rate, you would need a whole ecosystem, similar to apple in order for it to work.
I still think you can develop something like a hub where you install services like apps, but I doubt it would attract anyone outside selfhosting circles.
There are several things you can and should do to harden your server, many of them can be found here.
Not to piss on anyones parade here, but grepping something out of a json structure is one of the most asked questions for jq as well. Of course json is nice, but if the goal is to simplify data extraction, I’m not sure much will be gained by this.
As far as reducing the toolchain necessary to extract the same data, this is a welcome addition.
I’m thinking Anoia from the mind of Terry Pratchett.
Honestly, I’d be happy if I didn’t need 6 arr-products that barely work.
But if a dream a little bit, I would like something like a single webapp that let’s me manage audio, series, e-books, audio books and movies. If it could work towards something like flexget and have proper integration to metadata services, that would be a dream.
I mean I’m all for taxing these customers, but for the millionth time, can we start by taxing the wealthy first?