If you haven't seen the trend on X of people hacking their TVs to remove the bloat and spyware then add in better UI it's been pretty awesome to watch.
I ended up finding some projects for samsung tvs. Not sure if they can help clean them up, but they do seem to allow installing your own apps and controlling the tv.
Reminds me of when we set up an outdated Sega Dreamcast for emulation. We had rolled home a trash picked badly out of alignment rear projection TV on our skateboards and parked it in the garage - mom wasn't letting it in the house. My youngest brother, still in diapers, thought it completely normal to sit on the garage floor and play the Gameboy "Green" Pokemon English translated rom. The individual emulated pixels were huge on that thing (and three different colors around the edges).
The bad UX seems to be the joke here. Making you beat a gym leader just to change a setting is the whole point, I think. Would anyone really keep this as their home screen for a month?
* https://github.com/reisxd/TizenBrew
* https://github.com/Apps2Samsung/Apps2Samsung
* https://github.com/SushyDev/tizen-homebrew
* https://github.com/xchwarze/samsung-tv-ws-api
* https://github.com/hugoh/samsung-tizen-tv-control
https://github.com/humblemuzzu/dumbtv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Player