alt Hacker News> you just turned on the TV, selected your channel, and there was your show
You've just described the media experience. When I was a kid I spent so much time just flipping through channels. The same activity today is a vastly different and inferior experience. Modern televisions take forever to change channels.
It seems like all home technology adds friction and inscrutable failure modes in order to gain functionality/flexibility.
"Smart" seems to mean "powerful but complicated and frustrating."
I get the functionality benefits. I just don't want to pay the friction price.