For one thing, VLC on macOS has become so unreliable it's more or less unusable. Randomly won't play valid video streams, slow or completely broken seeking, and even intermittently crashes.

I switched to IINA and haven't looked back, it's incredibly good for most cases. Unfortunate that it's Mac-only software; not a multi-platform capable solution.

https://iina.io/

MPV is the only video player I'm aware of which is available for every common desktop platform and works consistently across them.