I hated the Apple remote until I got a hang of “touching” instead of “swiping” to navigate with it. If you touch the top/bottom/left/right you move the cursor or selector one step in that direction. Touch 4 times on the right of the touchpad, the cursor moves exactly 4 spaces to the right on the Apple TV.I pretty much hate the Apple remote, so maybe a real remote would help.
They should call that out more somehow, because swipe navigation was the source of most of my frustration with the AppleTV remote.