My main complaint is that there isn’t a consistent experience between apps. Things are in different places, actions do different things in different apps, no gesture support, subpar players with horrible scrubbing, etc.
I think all apps should be held to a few basic UI/UX standards so going from one app to another isn’t a completely different experience.
The attached photo is just one example. Within the Apple TV app itself, long pressing an icon brings up this great menu allowing you to go straight to the show or the episode page. Long pressing in most other apps removes the show from your now playing list! All of these conflicting actions need to be rectified.
Completely agree. Sadly, the Apple TV 3 had exactly this — standard ‘templates’ for apps to use so they all behaved in a similar way. The templates available weren’t great, but instead of improve them, Apple decided to just let app developers do whatever they wanted. The result is the mess you describe.