New Roku UI - Playlist QOL request

The updated UI that came out a short while ago is much improved over the last awful one that was forced upon Roku users. The new one is more responsive on my TCL Roku TV and loads into Plex faster.

The one main issue I have is how the Playlist is displayed. When I choose Playlist all of my playlists are in one long line and scrolling through a hundred+ playlists is painful. Can the Playlist menu get an update so we can see the playlists displayed as they were under the last UI update?

Right now my playlist menu looks like this:

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I have to scroll constantly to the right and having 100+ playlists makes this a very tedious task. I have to scroll past all the seasons of 24, The Office, House, Family Guy, Simpsons and so on to get to the end so I can binge on X-Files.

Can the menu layout be changed to look like this:

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It’s so much easier to scroll down a dozen or so lines to find what playlist I want to utilize and not have to scroll 30 seconds to the right.

That’s the global page for playlists from your server. It may include photo and music playlists, which is the reason for the rows, to separate the playlists by type.

There are two options to view this as a grid.

  1. While focused on a playlist, in the video playlist row, press * and choose Browse. This will present that row as a vertical grid.

  2. Each library section has a playlist tab, so you can go to your movies library, tv library, etc. and click playlist tab on top to view a vertical scrolling grid.

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