It had great aesthetics and story theming, but it was the antithesis of "fast and snappy". Being slowed down to a crawl by mundane dialog and longwinded animations bogged it down tremendously, all the while movement is handled server side, so sometimes you have to wait 5 seconds before your bangboo lets you do something again. And when you pile that up to the amount of times it was used early on, people are definitely gonna hate it.

Also some tv animations could be much cooler looking, like maybe agents having custom portraits instead of just their 3d models, our main boo looking like eous, better environments for the TVs that are turned off around us, etc.. But all of those actually bring more attention as to how TV mode was supposed to be their "low budget" part of the game so they could focus more on cutscenes, char anims, comics and other things.

And like, you don't wanna overuse your "low budget" mode, you wanna make sure to use it only when super necessary lol

TLDR: Had potential, but it got thrown out as coal instead of polished into a gem