To Mr. Smalley;
"... to better enable us to personalize the sort order..."
That is our job - your customers. And we already have the perfectly suitable tools to do so; "Hide this channel" and the "All Channels" and "Favorites" categories. Removing channel numbers has little/nothing to do with "personalizing the sort order" anyhow, other than adding a great deal of dis-order and identification difficulty. Numbers have faithfully served humanity's desire for order for thousands of years - why suddenly nix a perfectly good thing now? Makes less than zero sense. Do not implement this change!
"... what channels we think you’d most likely want to watch..."
Again, "you" have no clue whatsoever what "I" may want to watch, or my/our preferred method of finding it - that's my/our prerogative, not yours - and the method preferred happens to be a specific functionality of RokuOS that I paid good money for in order to utilize. You have no right whatsoever to "enter" my television without my permission and purposely remove/break that paid-for functionality.
These attempts to "think" for us and thus make things simpler/easier have essentially had the exact opposite effect - 400+ channels or no. Fer chris'sakes - leave it be already!! 🙄 Give your keen devs something far better to do - like simply making the channel guide remember our last selected category, for example.
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