Indeed. It’s also better than another UI which requires an esoteric feature of a remote control that I don’t even use and offers no way of switching that stupid choice off, preventing me from ever getting more information about the shows it is presenting beyond the title and banner.

It’s also better than one that always says I’m logged out when I start it, and then magically logs me in a minute or two later... while I’m in the process of trying to log in. (Or any of the several other ones that require me to log in nearly every time.)

Of course calling any of these a “User Interface” is almost laughable. SLOM is a better term. That’s “Small Library Obfuscatory Method” for the uninitiated. Or maybe they’re just trying to save bandwidth by making viewers spend viewing time searching pointlessly through their offerings that are ordered seemingly according to the pattern of pigeon droppings outside their office.

Netflix now provides an option to disable that.

You must love Netflix then (you can turn autoplay off, but I'm sure you know that, right?)

No, I didn't. Last I looked you couldn't at all. Apparently I can now, but not via my Roku. I have to figure out how to get to Netflix from a PC apparently.

Also note that you're usually limited to a certain video quality when watching on a PC. Unless thing have changed since I last checked, you can't go past 1080p on a computer; you have to be on a streaming device (Roku, AppleTV, etc.) This is why I usually watch streaming services through my Playstation even though I have the PC hooked up to my big TV.

You only need to go to the PC to access that setting. Then you can resume watching Netflix from anywhere you want.

Yeah, it's quite bad UX. The subtitles can also only be configured via the website, which is something not many people seem to know. On my TV the default subtitle settings result in blooming so I configured them to be yellow with a black border and transparent background.

Muting your sound makes that dark pattern somewhat less annoying.