Why would I update all the time? There is no easy way to go back, and I never encountered an appleTV update which improved performance. Since the original. I use the my Apple TV device to stream. Apple always wants more. The “last” updates on older devices always the worst. Once fine, they struggle to run. Oh, time to throw it out. Legacy support? Oh too expensive… Open the hardware for devices out of support…Oh wee can’t do that. Most of us are stuck to some degree in the “ecosystem” in 2023. Where is the “focus” upgrade to have apple leave us alone, till we feel like risking an upgrade?
I just went from 16.1 to 17 a couple weeks ago. You don’t have to update if you do t want to. Turn off auto updates.
I still have an AppleTV third generation from 2012 or whenever it was that is still connected to a tv and has never been updated.