That is because the price of TVs has been dropping while the # of features (and sizes of the TVs) have been increasing. Modern smart TVs are subsidized to heck

That is because the price of TVs has been dropping while the # of features (and sizes of the TVs) have been increasing. Modern smart TVs are subsidized to heck and back. You can actually get smart TVs w/o lots of ads, Sony's Android TVs give you a slew of opt-out options when you first turn them on. Roku is the worst about this, they show ads to customers and try to collect $ from the streaming platforms.