Literally hundreds of comments and several threads/posts about this exact issue and Roku ignores all of us and they ignore the basic functionality the TV guide is missing and how obnoxious it is to use in its current state.
They don't care.
This has been going on for a long time and I've even contacted upper management without response.
I switched to Plex's live TV guide a long time ago, I just installed Plex for free on my Roku's and started using their Live TV inside Plex, one extra click on the Plex icon instead of 7+ clicks each time I want to change the channel, it was a compromise.
In Plex, it's magical. When you select a tab or category of channels, you actually browse them until you're done in that category/tab.
Roku's employees, to my knowledge, are completely useless and terrible at troubleshooting. They'll often take info down as if they're going to do something but they won't, they don't know how and the problems are always above their heads. Most of the time the questions they ask are irrelevant, for example. They're clueless.
This forum is here to make us feel better, to make us feel like we're being heard, but we're not.
Thank you for sharing your workaround! It's very disappointing to hear everyone's frustrated experience with this issue!
