It will disable incremental updates but as long as there is a flashable zip file of the full image you can update using that

You can also quickly unroot then do an incremental update and then use magisk to create a flashable boot image afterwards to re-root

Ah I thought I saw v3 when I looked it up, so about double the price then but with fees (and probably low demand) my original estimate was probably correct enough

About $15 per CPU on ebay or so, so about $121,000 USD for the CPU’s alone

Fair enough, completely understandable

You could try Smart Tube which has built in adblock and sponsorblock and see if that works better on your android tv box

These days you can merge the SD card with your internal storage which will allow you to install apps on it albeit they will run more slowly off the sd card instead of off the phones flash storage but better than when it could only be used for files

From what I understand it doesn’t work on any of the mobile apps which is unfortunate, but I guess that is the price we pay for not wanting to just use the web browser