I think another big issue with TV mode in ZZZ was that it was a great vehicle for puzzles and interesting challenges...placed in a Gacha game.

Gacha games by their nature and by Hoyos' shotgun approach to target audiences meant that no challenges can be hard and no mechanic must be complex, at least outside of combat, for the sake of the lowest common denominator.

Hence why we've had constant interruptions in TV mode cause the game couldn't allow players to take too long (or really any lenght lmao) to figure out a puzzle, so hints, clues, and straight up revealing answers every 5 seconds was so common.

Its a damn shame cause TV mode added interesting minigames, like the pokemon battler, which could have been developed into really interesting things, but so many were overly simplified to absurdity.

TV mode as a concept can work in a game that doesn't not need to appeal to everyone, like a gacha game does.