Because the previous one was old and not very well suited for the modern GNOME design. Also the new one has a neat visualizer!

Finally.

It’s also good for seeing just how terrible Xiaomi is. There are leftovers of unavailable features everywhere on their phones that you can see with this kind of apps.

VLC doesn’t innovate. And it’s basically dead on Linux.

Afaik it’s false. It had a major update recently and it’s installed on a lot of Linux systems.