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Secondary to that is that getting bluray to work on a computer is a pain. It's not impossible, but its not natively supported on macos or Linux (I dont know about windows, haven't used it in ages now).
Whereas if you do use the alternative methods, you don't have to fight with trying to get the os you're using to work with bluray
Thirdly, the rips you’ll get from the alternative methods will likely be a better quality and/or smaller file size than a personal rip.
How so? From blu-ray, I can use handbrake or ffmpeg to pick the exact quality and options I want. And I can use av1, which most torrent groups still aren't using.
I also find many of the downloads strive for smaller file size over quality. I want the opposite, as I don't ever want to have to rip again, and I want them to look perfect.
Then why transcode them? Rip the remux direct from MakeMKV. As long as you're transcoding them, it's been my experience that there are much much much more knowledgable people than I when balancing quality/size.