Tv show seasons/episodes can be subscribed individually, and you can change behavior e.g. ‘stop after this season’.

You can set up quality preferences per show and even more complicated choosing with a lot of regex, and it actually works very well. If you do it this way and enable upgrading, the media will also automatically get its quality upgraded when something “better” comes out.

“TRaSH guides” has a lot of regex that can be copied from, and I also have a ton of my own preferences codified.

The core arr stack (radar, sonarr, optionally seerr) is generally just a really smooth way to handle everything at the cost of an initial learning curve. Maybe overkill for some people, but I think it’s a straight upgrade if you set it up right

One of the biggest advantages to me is that my friends and family can go into Seerr and click “I want this show” and it will magically appear in a few minutes without my intervention. Also, for TV shows specifically sonarr will automatically get new episodes for series that you’re subscribed to