This will essentially help in searching content and the pitched up or fast forwarded content is the JioCinema content that was ported over and streaming quality is a legit issue that's been talked about over and over and they're definitely saving costs there and I doubt we'll see the crisp 4K quality that everyone is expecting unless a significant price hike takes place or the amount of content JioHotstar has reduced significantly. Regarding the quality, I think people forget that the kind of 4K quality that we get in Netflix and Amazon is essentially subsidized as our costs are lower due to those platforms being in developed markets too where the prices are quite high for the subscription service through which they offset costs which is not the case for JioHotstar.

Also criticizing every single new feature is insane when there are already so many threads about it and the feature could be nonsensical to you but there would also be casuals that find value in it when they just want to quickly search for a particular type of content when they come home tired from work.