Exactly, maybe their experience was indifferent for what ever reason but there are a lot of lateral moves in this hobby that can be very flavor of the month club impulse buys.
This obviously was a major upgrade but with 80% of my content streamed or stored on a drive or PC this made sense for me. It is amazing what it can do, I haven’t even scratched the surface yet. It is so intelligent, it is unreal how smart this box is. It monitors every parameter of its operation
Many have said the Android version is bad but I went in and allowed permission for it to always run in the background and that made it much more stable.
A must have for me was a screen with Album art and other metadata. Transport keys are nice to have also. SPDIF was high on the want list too.