There has been a change in the Roku channel guide "pushed through" in the past few days that is very much so - and quite obviously - a significant, obnoxious backward step in usability;
When watching "Live TV", each and every time the channel guide is opened (left < click), the guide opens to the far left "categories" column.
This is a change from the previous and correct action of the guide always opening (i.e.; the white cursor highlight being) on the channel currently being watched, and is now entirely frustrating and counterintuitive in comparison.
If a person opens the channel guide, the vast majority of the time the obvious intention is to scroll up & down through the guide's channels and program descriptions - the primary purpose of the guide in the first place. But with this most recent change, every time the guide is opened, two additional "clicks" - in the opposite > direction, no less - must be accomplished in order to even access that primary function. Not good! 🤨
The simple and obvious fix is a return to the previous default behavior of always opening (white highlight) on the channel currently being viewed. That simple.
I do see that at least our last category selection is being honored apon opening the guide, finally (after, what - two years of user complaints?), but the implementation is simply waay all wrong.
That, and some other bugs re; the menu highlight jumping around haphazardly while scrolling thru future programs appears to have been at least partially (??) addressed. But, still - one step forward, two steps back. Again. And again. And...
We owners of these Roku products are not beta testers, nor should we be considered so. Where in the h3ll's the development QA/QC in regard to these changes??
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