I did the same thing with Vizio and it eventually would randomly turn off, or sound wouldn’t work or something, you’d call support and they’d tell you that you have to update it. It doesn’t make any sense, but I did it and it would work find for awhile again. Thr tinfoil hat in me says they do that to get whatever info they have stored on you.
I just want to say I don’t see why this is getting down voted, this is nostupidquestions, and on top of that, this one is interesting and I’m excited to see peoples insight.