Replacing Roon - What Should I get?

I too am at my wits end with Roon- same scenario - for years it continually hangs up- suddenly drops out, requires a long slow reboot, endless issues. Yes, I've posted in the thousands of pages of Roon support - that should be the first warning sign btw- and get hundreds of suggestions and Roon's own tech support ineveitably wants two pages of technical details from me, ip addresses of everything on the network, rebooting protocols etc- and - it never solves the issue. All devices in my system are Roon certified - and still hang up. 

I too just went completely hardwired from the router/modem directly to the Roon nucleus and my Lumin P1 is hardwired - and- I even now harwire my macbook to the ethernet- so- how is it and what is it that causes Roon to freeze, drop out and take 15 minutes of restarting, quitting, rebooting the nucleus and the lumin, only yo have it happen again randomly an hour later? It's the most frustating ongling issue- meanwhile the "back up" Blusound set up I have to maintain ALWAYS works, never, ver drops out or hangs up. And. It doesn't have an annual fee. 

Hi 

I also tried the nucleus and it to was an issue. I’ve been running RoonOS on a i5

Asus for the last 3 years and it’s been rock solid. I tried other library solutions and always come back to Roon. It is the standard. If your budget can manage it, this would be my recommendation. 

I’m finishing up a weeks long vinyl listening spree and getting back to digital. 
Discovering now that the last few Roon updates have 1) tremendously impacted the performance of the Roon Nucleus One core - everything is slower, more sluggish, and 2) downgraded the sonics, which is easily explained by the struggling hardware that isn’t able to cope with the OS and software updates. 
No issues with my network. This is purely a Roon problem. Looks like they deployed some inefficient code.

So I downloaded Jplay. It sounds excellent! Sonically supperior to Roon, Qobuz Connect and Tidal Connect. Need more time with it but so far it’s great. Not without glitches but at least sound is what it should be. 

I wouldn't trust in-wall Ethernet unless I'd tested it or had visibility into the quality of the connection.  Some routers have this built in.  Otherwise get an inexpensive Ethernet tester like these. 

I personally punched down a number of cables in my data closet and made a lot of mistakes.  This resulted in degraded performance but not NO performance.  That is, Ethernet still appeared to work but at highly reduced speeds.  

Roon has been dogshit for the last couple of weeks. It constantly hangs or reloads. My Roon screens (iMac, MacBook Air M4, MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max) often don't see my Roon ROCK, or only intermittently, or won't connect to it. Endless restarts of my screens, the router, the modem, the ROCK...and it solves nothing. Then I leave it alone for a day, come back the next, and everything works fine. Until the next round of trouble, which arrives soon enough. The last 48 hours have been fine but who knows how long the joy will last.

P.S. My network is fine, no issues with anything else.