It makes me wonder what's going on at a technical level, that it's still broken after all this time. I would have figured that a dependable native video player is a solved problem.

Every now and then a play a video on Reddit to see if it works yet, and the answer is always no.

Sometimes the first second or two plays though.

It works, but the video restarts at least once, sometimes two or three times, before it finally plays correctly. Its very annoying

It works as a content rip-off machines, which is exactly what it was designed for...

but yeah in a vacuum it blows