I was very happy with Chromecast until last year, when they replaced the screensaver of family photos (from Google Photos) with ads. So I replaced all of the Chromecasts in our house with Apple TVs.
God that is so dystopian it's almost funny. I yave a shield for years now and i still like it a lot, but i feel like they start to push it a bit. My next step is probably to try to run linux on it, or one of them mini pc's