You are an archivist. If you care about preserving grain, using AV1, or shrinking a 50GB remux down to 12GB while keeping HDR metadata, this is your tool.
If HDEncode was your entry-level tool, private trackers are the professional workshop. These require maintaining a ratio (uploading back what you download), but the quality is astronomically higher.
Users often check these sites daily for specific shows or scene groups.
Here is the breakdown of the best tools to replace your workflow.
Regardless of which alternative you choose, download based on these criteria, not the group name: