If you’ve been using a Roku player or smart TV over the past year or so, you’ve probably noticed some big changes on the home screen.

What used to be a straightforward grid for all your installed apps has now become a mishmash of menu options, shortcuts, and content recommendations. While you can still simplify the Roku home screen with some settings tweaks , the trend is clearly toward stuffing it with content that makes Roku money.

So here’s my counterproposal: Instead of keeping up the pretense of a simple home screen, Roku should just toss it in favor of something more useful. In fact, Roku already has a perfectly good starting point lurking in a different part of its menu system.

Roku’s What to Watch menu is a better home screen

Click over to Roku’s left-hand sidebar menu and yo

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