[olympia]

I assume you're doing it this way to try to make Kodi more user friendly, but when the key stops working because TMDB invalidates it for whatever reason, you then have millions of users experiencing the frustration of having it not work. Then you go generate a new key, update the metadata xml and release the update. Then said millions of users hit your add-on repository to get the update which I assume you pay bandwidth for. Only to be repeated again when that key gets invalidated.

Yes, I use my own key.

 Wrong assumption on how to process is designed. The process is the following, and not the above.
1. TMDB contacts us we have an issue and we would need to replace the keys and gives us the new keys at the same time
2. We replace the keys in the scrapers and release/ push the updated scrapers to the repo to have millions of users updated
3. After the scrapers released, TMDB waits about 48 hours before shutting down the old keys - so no millions of frustrated users, because the scraper update happens in 99.9% of them, before the old keys would got invalidated
4. There is like 0.1% of remaining users whose scrapers will not be updating for some reason during this grace period, yes they need to force update by checking updates manually or reboot - but that is far from being millions of frustrated users. Could you imagine what would be here if we would follow such process you suggested??!!