Except when you couldn't know in advance when your show skipped a week and they had to play some crappy rerun of a completely different show.

A group of us used to meet every week to watch Twin Peaks. We’d unplug the phone, drink coffee, and eat cherry pie (or apple for a bit of variation). Then we’d watch the episode again having just recorded it and try to figure out wtf was going on. Happy days.

I do have an antenna and get some decent channels with it

I have cable. It doesn't really work like that anymore. I used to be able to click through ALL the basic cable channels, catching a frame or two of every single channel, with zero delay between channels, all within like under a minute. These days every channel change or menu selection has a built-in delay of at least a second or two. Channel surfing just doesn't vibe the same anymore. That form of TV is mostly if not entirely dead.

You're not wrong, although I think I'd still have to wait for the smart-TV OS to load and navigate the menu to select the Cable input.