What it doesn’t solve is the friction and bloatware of the tvos. My Sony tv’s Android interface has unbearable input lag using its menus, so I inevitably leave it set to my appletv hdmi input.
Could the TV do everything the appletv could? Yep just worse and I can’t get rid of it
That applies regardless of whether or not the tv is “smart” - my current “smart” Roku TV runs great, and I had an old “dumb” Samsung that took forever to do anything.
Well-written software is what helps here, not smartness or lack thereof.
Could the TV do everything the appletv could? Yep just worse and I can’t get rid of it