Lots of shade here. The Chrome served to make dumb tvs smart. It did its job. It changed the world of TVs. We don't use it anymore because TVs are smart out of the box. Google could spend the next 20 years trying to service and repurpose these things or cut technical debt and move onto the next.
I have a "smart" Samsung TV from 2015 and it definitely doesn't have Chromecast software, its hardware is too weak to handle modern streaming apps, and it stopped receiving updates from Samsung years ago anyway. The picture is still good, I've disconnected it from the network, and it has HDMI input, so there's no good reason to replace it yet. Friends have had problems with newer/smarter TVs so I'm still not seeing what's so great about baking the apps into the TV.
