Off on a tangent but does anyone else feel depressed at the state of TV streaming? We have 3 companies with their own proprietary streaming devices and protocol

Off on a tangent but does anyone else feel depressed at the state of TV streaming? We have 3 companies with their own proprietary streaming devices and protocols which all work great inside their own ecosystem but suck outside of it. Apparently open standard protocols exist but implementations are broken or incompatible on tvs and OSs are dropping support. I have a few chromecasts sitting around but now I have an iphone they are all useless and I have to buy an Apple TV which is 4x-5x the cost of a chromecast and only works on my apple devices.