Direct (Non-Proxy) Connection to Tablo

Although I competently agree with you a gazillion percent, my understanding based on everything you’ve presumably read… their marketing demographic is the “general public” consumer. Targeting relatively less technical audience, they wanted to engineer a device that was as close to “plug 'n play” as possible.

This post from @TabloSupport kind of summed it all up for me. To paraphrase: Yea, we could have done a lot of advanced things to make it easier for those who’d understand these things… while inversely creating even more support issues on account of the user who “thought” they knew what they were doing.

Our focus is also on developing the product to be easy-to-use for the average non-technical user.

One great things tablo also does do it allow for 3rd part apps. Tablo Tools has limited function to watch live TV without needing discover via the internet. Although I do believe initially this my be the only discovery process.