If you want smart you have probably done the right thing.
I would have had another Sony (fairly recent 42" written off after house fire) but they seemed to be £100 - £200 more than the equivalent Panasonic.
The "smart" on the previous Sony (from the year before they went android) was slow and clunky and never used. I naively assumed that smartness would have moved on. Judging by the Panasonic, not much. The Panasonic's (2019 model) is faster but looks and works like a student project, and I couldn't really figure out setting up my apps in a reasonable period of time either so this will stay unused too. A 4K Fire TV stick does what I need, controls the TV on/off and volume, and provides all the catch up services and Amazon Prime which is basically what we use, plus Netflix should we ever want it.
The only other criticism I have of the Panasonic and its basic Panasonic soundbar is a slight lip-sync error on iPlayer. Amazon programming is fine so this could be down to the app or the Fire stick itself. It's only tens of milliseconds so I've decided life's too short to waste it trying to fix it.
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