Here are a few of my favorites, some of which are exposed, some are not:
Mealie - Recipe management. Import recipes by URL is my favorite feature, then I tweak and try it out (I have to be gluten free, so this makes it easy to track what worked for us).
Homepage - a homepage to put quick links to all of my stuff, neat and clean.
Grafana - for visualization of current data of my systems, paired with Prometheus.
Jellyfin - for all my media, let's me pick out what my kids can see/watch without me having to look over their shoulder, along with being a great looking solution for me.
Yeah big brands can screw up too, I had several spools of coax fail once, and it turned out the whole batch had a problem. I'm just glad no one pulled first, tested later.
If we are taking a gentle loop, sure. But if you mean (and I've seen this BTW) tying like a pair of shoes and pulling it tight, I'd kick you out of my IDF.
Not saying thats what you were thinking, just had to share my memory of that pain.
I still prefer a bit of waxed thread though. Great for any cable, be it utp, f/utp, armored, fiber, coax, whatever. But that's also how I started, so it probably plays a role in why I like it.
Edit: plus a string makes a nice and neat way to hang it on a hook.
I think that has to do more with the heads being used and the quality of the cable than anything.
I've seen tons of cheap heads on good cable, and it goes poorly after a while.
I generally recommend cable thats been third party tested for both performance and physical resilience. Haven't seen any decent riser that wasn't, but I have seen some patch from major brands that definitely wasn't.
At a month before, probably just a webrip/dl, and then they'd wait the month for the physical release.