I bought a FireTV stick for the lesser-used TV, having been accustomed to the Apple TV in the main room. It was cheap, and seemed to do all the stuff

The software was horrible:

* Highlight a search field, think you can use Alexa to dictate text? No, it'll just do a regular Alexa query. AppleTV gets this right: if you're on a text field, the mic button will just activate dictation to enter text

* Screensaver comes on, exit screensaver, also exits currently playing show back to the screen where you have to hit resume

* Slow, janky UI built with zero love

I felt bad when I eventually gave it away to my mum, who had a very early gen AppleTV that could not run Disney+. I felt so bad about inflicting the FireTV experience on her that I soon bought her a new AppleTV to replace it