• On my mac, the little I pirate today is Microsoft office apps. Because fuck MS.
• Most of the games I buy either from steam on sale, or cheap keys from g2a & co. I rarely get new games. I have little time for gaming, and have a backlog of games that could last me a couple of lifetimes already.
• System utilities (firewall for instance) I buy
• I go FOSS when I can.
• Only thing I subscribed (and regret it, but the hassle to go rogue is just not worth it) is Adobe Lightroom Classic.
• Last but not least, I pirated the hell out of the Nintendo Switch OLED though. Because Fuck Nintendo.
• I've donated to indie devs for games I loved (whatever the platform, even if I ended up only playing them a bit).
• I pirate TV shows and movies.

Just try it. If "barely suppoted" gets you the current stability, them kudos to the devs. I haven't had a single crash in recent years. Sure Transmission has a nicer minimalistic UI, but it lacks a lot of qbittorrent's features.

No it is not. You should have told the coordinator: fine, provide us the software.