And unlike other smartTVs that mostly either run bloated, insecure Android or their own laggy or featureless custom OS's WebOS on LG TVs is fantastic, I've had two over the past 4 years and both are excellent to use, get frequent updates, have advanced features and don't lag at all.

I can't compare to other vendors, but just on it's own webOS in my LG TV got only one "half" update (3.0 to 3.5 I think) and is essentially abandoned. E.g. web browser was working with constant warnings right from the start and now it's not working at all. WebOS probably was intended to be fast but on LG hardware it is crawling slow and apps are often crashing (and it a pain in the ass to reopen what you were watching before crash). And that's on a 1000-1500$ device (when new). Personally I would stay away from LG TVs in future. Maybe others are just as bad, but I see for myself first.

Interesting - WebOS 3.x is pretty old now, until recently I had an old early 2016 model that had WebOS 3.5 or 4.0 (I forget which) on it and it seemed fine, I've never tried using a browser on any of my TVs though so maybe that wouldn't have been a good experience for me either.

I can vouch for the same experience, quite happy so far.

WebOS UX is terrible in LG TVs. It is really hard to do simple things. Try to switch between satellite and TV with less than 5 button presses

Maybe this depends on what model you have, but on my LG TV you can long-press the number buttons on the remote and it creates a shortcut to the current selected input. Long press the same button again from anywhere, and you are taken there. Super nice to quickly open your favorite app.

I honestly think the LG interface is excellent.

Long press is not discoverable.

Maybe it is your model? On mine I press input button, I get a list of options, sorted by if the connected device is on or not, and select. so for me is usually, input button, one touch left, center button. I can also press the input button more times that does the same as the right button

I find it excellent on my C9 and my older early 2016 model (both are pretty much the same).

Xiaomi comes with essentially plain Android TV and just adds an extra home screen that is even simpler than the normal one. Can’t complain there.

Samsung TVs with Tizen are pretty good too in my experience.

Like, seriously? I've had a Tizen TV for almost a year now and every minute of using it I'm cursing myself for not buying an LG (the bezels were slightly thinner on the Samsung and I figured Tizen couldn't be too bad).

It's a complete disaster! The menu system is infinitely worse than even Sony's dumb TVs, which is saying something, becase Sony can't make software for shit.

A short list: - auto-brightnes does literally nothing - changing the brightness manually requires to you go 6 levels deep into the menu - the bottom quick settings bar thing has a bunch of stuff hidden in an invisible tile that shows up only after you try to navigate over the edge, which is the most undiscoberable crap ever - the quick settings contain exactly two settings anyone would care about, the rest are useless and obviously non-comfigurable - can't hide the giant cursor when screen mirroring - can't set a default app to launch into so it takes 4 clicks and half a minute to turn on the TV (we have an app instead of a cable box because wasn't the kind od the point of smart TVs??) - can't install apps without a Samsung account, can't remote control it from a phone without a samsung account - the phone remote control can't enter text!!!!! You have to use direction keys and a shitty on-screen keyboard - no always-on cast receiver - DLNA randomly disappeares, can play like 4 codecs. Half of those you can't even scrub in and the colors get weirdly hue-shifted when playing HDR video (despite the TV supposedly being HDR10, I believe)

This is as much as I care to type on my phone, but I'm sure if I asked someone in my family who actually still uses the thing, I'd get another 10 lines to add at least.