Open to alternatives. I'm aware of the issues with kape. I haven't had problems with them and I've used them since before kape bought them. I was going to switch to Mullvad but they no longer support port forwarding, on which I depend.
Depends on where you are. I have mine sitting behind a pia vpn container, equivalent to a gluetun solution. My opinion is that if you're doing black market iptv in a place where you could get in trouble for it, you need a vpn.
I don't see a channel lineup for tvplans. Sports and News is mostly what I'm after here. Both US and European sports.