ya, that's the only reason i have read so far.

and that reason is not good enough to give up a better player!

the next box i buy, it is for a superior player to do 4k 60fps, hi10p, dts:x, auto frame switching... not album artwork.

some of these capabilities require licensing, pay royalty.

free apps won't and can't have all of that.

note only some device makers pay for all of it, some will save cost, don't pay.

kodi is a grand app, has great potential, in may ways competing with YOUTUBE to be the greatest app on planet earth.
but... it is only as good as the addon providers and how they maintain them. and that is assuming gomens don't geoblock and corporations don't pay a dozen hackers to sabotage them to keep profits.

as discussed previously, anything from china is best within china made things - hardware or software. china enthusiasts like to keep everything in chinese whereas kodi people are mainly english, will do something "china" in a clumsy way for a minority english-speaking/reading/no mandarin audience.

i can't stress this enough - forget kodi for anything china-china, you will get breadcrumbs only. so much easier to get china stuff direct with china apps - live tv or vod - in HD. i actually have that on my smart tv too, no need any box, better quality than local tv.

hongkong, taiwan, sg - can get a bit but are usually limited and in sd - i think it's becos they geoblock and restrict to paying users on paidtv or restricted by our local powers.

kodi actually reminds u why use 15.0 when there is 16.1! i can already see why u failed to update on adrian supertv as some updates can only be done on kodi 16.0/16.1.

as for what box to buy, i suggest u find a way to get a higher speed first. 4/5mpbs can't get u far even with the most expensive box. like a 500cc engine car won't run faster with rocket fuel or super tires. can talk about that in this thread:
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3126605/+1880#bottom