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I find it works in most cases, but I have also seen it "just not work." I feel like your good "this does everything you need for this one thing and just works" apps like Retroarch and VLC have become FAR less reliable in recent years.
VLC is one of the scariest apps on my phone. Normally when I kill an app (I have "kill" bound to long-press home), it stays dead.
VLC doesn't die. If you connect a Bluetooth headset to your phone, VLC spawns in the background and begins recursively scanning your media, even if you didn't give it permission to.
Its otherwise a highly performant media player for me, but my god it terrifies me.