If you don't want a smart TV, you are pretty much limited to bargain bin Sceptre and Best Buy TVs or finding a business signage TV.

Gaming monitors come up to 48" size. That's TV enough IMO

How bright are these large monitors for viewing from a distance?

They’ve got the same hardware as regular TVs, the Gigabyte Aorus FO48U is the exact same as the LG CX series, but without all the smarts.

Obviously, they cost quite a bit more (almost double), because modern TVs are ~40-60% subsidized by ads and tracking.

I have a Hisense with a built-in Roku, same experience, but it got a lot faster once I cut off its internet access. (It's still connected to the home network so I can use the iOS remote control app for it, but I set up a firewall rule to block it from WAN access.) Worth a try if you can live without it dialing out.

Interesting, I'll give this a shot. thanks for the tip!

Sadly PS4 is pretty bad for streaming services. They don't show up on the main screen and often are buried in subsequent pages in the streaming menu.

I haven't been able to figure how to "sticky" YT TV for example to either the main screen or early in the "Video" section.

Yeah it's not perfect, they shove everything into that TV & Video section[1] and then in there I sometimes I have to look for the app I want in another sub-screen. I want to just create a folder on the home screen with my streaming apps on it. I'm probably going to get another Apple TV in the end. But even with all of those annoyances I am still much happier using the PS4 than the built-in Roku.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBJxPkUUh4 <-- If anyone is curious, this is what PS4 does to your streaming apps and there's no way out of it. You are forced to go into this section to find the streaming app you want to use