Because some people don’t like the bloated ‘smart’ operating systems on their tvs or how they operate. I.e. input lag when pushing buttons, showing ads or other stupid bullshit. Tbh I’d rather have a large stupid lcd panel that just turns on and shows whatever I plug into it via hdmi.
The only alternative to replacing the board are commercial displays, but those are very expensive.
With htacces everyone can use the same credentials and you can have a message in the popup like ‚use username admin, passeword= what’s a duck? as the login‘ The other option would be an actual captcha