Prime Video app sucks. Spend less time over-optimizing, more time improving usability.
I imagine the other streaming apps use similar techniques to share code, so I wonder why theirs is so poor in this regard.
Outside of the major players though it gets a lot worse - Funimation's streaming app is horrendous, as is Crunchyroll's. At least Prime Video is doing better than that tier.
My girlfriend’s smart TV runs WebOS and if we have to use Prime for some reason it’s easier to plug the laptop in via HDMI and do it via a browser. Amazon’s app seems to just be broken on WebOS there.
Not only that, but what the heck is up with the completely uninspired UI and user-hostile UX? The importance of seasons being lumped together is something a focus group should have noticed.
Amazon was a web-first company - you really have to wonder how they screwed up their user experience so, so badly.
I'm not a big fan of what some designers deliver, but sitting down with maybe one or two users and seeing how they try to make sense of the mess that is AWS might have made sense.
Or the AWS API?
I actually think this is a product of Amazon's workplace culture. The old joke about the first 90% taking 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. Amazon only invests in the first 90%, and doesn't give a shit about the rest of it because they have already won the monopoly, and their sociopathic stack ranking forced firing culture won't reward people working on polish.
In UIs, that second 90% is polish. Polish comes from low priority ticket/feature fulfillment, and if you're working on low priority tickets, that means you're getting fired in the next reaper cycle.