I don’t know about the UX, but if you want peoples to use your app, it need to look nice.

If only it didn’t looked like a 20 year old software.

The root problem is government not enforcing the law on internet. Deepfakes existed for years.
The law enforcement should be more proactive on internet.

When you are bored, backup a VM then hard kill it and see if it manage to restart properly.
Software should be able to recover from that.
If it doesn’t, troubleshoot.