Exactly, and it will be just as easy to use. Why bother with the "convenience" in the first place? Why was all the time wasted designing and producing the built-in stuff in the first place? Why make more stuff to maintain for no gain? When the built-in stuff breaks it will either get in the way or stop the thing from working all together. Why? Just why? There has been no sane answer given to that simple question since this smart tv thing started.
You need to have a moderately big processing complex to do various kinds of tasks in the TV anyways (scaling, HDMI negotiation, temporal interpolation, audio, etc).
Decoding video is not any significant additional BOM cost (mostly just the network interface), and it is more convenient and nice for a significant fraction of users.... plus it allows the manufacturer access to additional revenue streams (e.g. getting some pennies for bundling Netflix).
My samsung tv was connected to the internet which let it auto update and now the basic ui like volume changing is incredibly slow. Its super painful to just switch between hdmi devices.
