I'm so glad I recently made the decision to leave the Apple ecosystem. I'm fed up paying a large premium for a lot of expensive marketing.
Apple HomeKit has completely busted for me. I've done hard resets of all TVs + HomePods 4 times, tried 5GHz and 2.2GHz....no difference. It's Apple's problem - clearly with either their latest OS versions and/or their cloud. I just had to replace a TV remote that didn't even last a year.
Anyone want to buy a MBP, iPhone 8, iPhone 12, iPad, 5 HomePods and an Apple TV...? :)