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I went with WebOS, so far the best of them, meaning the less painfull one.

WebOS is by far the least painful, but by no means good. You can disable some of the crap, but still it occasionally injects ads and other crap on top of the broadcast.

Nothing a well-configured pihole can't handle, but when I found out a $1700 TV is that awful I was livid.

I learned to live with it, considering how bad the Android TV alternative is.

It has become really hard to get a proper dumb TV, if they aren't using the well known OSes, they bundle some custom firmware that also pretends to be smart anyway, most likely using some FOSS POSIX OS.

I have an LG TV with WebOS. The OS is fine, but the CPU is underpowered and has difficulty streaming video.

Yeah that is definitely noticeable.

I usually describe my "smart" TV (and all of them, really) as a bargain basement smartphone with an incredibly nice screen. All of the same issues - bare minimum specs to operate the thing in a typical fashion, lack of software patches and bundled "apps" that stop getting updates after a couple of years, questionable privacy policies, etc.

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