Many people plug in a Fire TV Stick, find Netflix and Prime and call it done. That's fine — but Amazon quietly builds a lot more into Fire OS than the setup screen ever tells you. Better performance, smarter controls, features that should be obvious but somehow ended up buried three menus deep.
Some of what's hiding in there fixes the stuff that actually annoys you: the lag, the sluggish menus, the remote juggling. Other features unlock things you'd assume require extra hardware entirely.
