Steve didn’t work for Roon at the time of this talk. He joined us in March of 2017. At 1:19:15 he even refers to us in the third person “these guys”. He did have an early release of Roon OS, but he was not speaking for the company.
As for the TV based “10ft away UI”, we’ve always been uneasy with the idea with using a arrow pad or mouse pointer type situation to control the UI on a TV. With the success of tablets, we’ve focused on making the tablet experience the best, and if we were to do a TV based UI, it’d be more of a “nowplaying” type display and not an interactive full Roon experience.