

Then you’d have to share them back from the host to the guest using NFS or samba, and there’s no reason to have them on the host. No, you’re fine. That’s what I would consider the right way to do it for what you describe as your purpose. Putting more layers in there isn’t serving a useful purpose, which is why I say to not bother with a NAS to store them, if your primary use of them is via the Arr stack VM.
I run a Piped server for myself and friends, but it can be challenging to keep running. Whenever YT comes up with a new way to fuck around with NewPipe, you sometimes need to wait for someone that knows how to fix it shows up and makes a PR.