[peckrob]

I'm kinda with you, though I am more willing to use wifi as an alternative when wiring is impossible or impractical.

The line I use in the house is, "if it's staying in one place and can be wired, it should be." My iMac is wired, all the AppleTVs are (now) wired, Linux servers are wired, etc.

Weirdly, until the 4K launched, on the AppleTV 4's was actually faster to use wifi (they only had a 10/100 Ethernet port, but support 802.11ac.)

To be fair, Wifi has gotten a lot better than the bad ol' 802.11b and WEP days. My Unifi access points are fairly solid (even if the company behind them is acting less so recently) and I very rarely have any wifi problems that aren't specific to a device. Like printers. I constantly fight with printers falling off the wifi. But I just prefer to be wired if possible.

[k33l0r]

I was pretty surprised to learn that my 2021 OLED TV only has a 10/100 ethernet port. Apparently previous models had USB 3.0 ports so you could workaround it by adding a USB gigabit ethernet adapter but in newer models they've reverted back to USB 2.0 ports, for whatever reason.

[mjevans]

The same reason they didn't shove in a 1000mbit Ethernet port; it saved them 2 cents a TV across 10 million TVs.

[ridgered4]

It really bothers me my Brother laser printer only has wifi as a network connection.

[fuzzfactor]

Most likely there is an almost identical model having an RJ-45 along with wifi or in place of it, in addition to USB.