I'm Sure ROKU is a Great Streaming-Service, but 'the Way I Started Using it' is Slightly Odd

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Preacher Kenneth Copeland has been advertising that his Ministries (KCM, EMIC) have a station on ROKU; but what introduced me to ROKU's streaming-service was ACTUALLY 'Amazon Fire "Rick-rolling" me into it!' See, I have an Amazon Firestick on my TV. Their CLAIM is that the Firestick (a little device you plug into the TV's USB-port ... or something---my roommate or my little sister handles the techno-stuff) "turns any TV into a 'Smart TV' (which is basically 'Internet-connected television)." So, when I 'tune the HDMI to the auxillary-channel,' I see my Amazon Fire profiles (one for me, one for my roommate, and one for my nieces who visit sometimes). Selecting my profile, I open a screen with a lot of menus---nearly-the-first of which is a list of a few shows I'm currently watching (on Amazon's "Prime Video" streaming-service, I think). One of those shows was Howie Mandel's 'return to stand-up comedy (after 20 years in other entertainment ventures)' comedy-special. On that show's "front page"--beneath the PLAY- & RESTART- (etc.) options--there was a collection of 'OTHER SHOWS YOU MIGHT LIKE.' I thought they were all comedy-specials that were ALSO on Prime Video (so that Firestick could just replace the comedy-special I WAS watching with the one I started watching); and one of the first ones was a comedy-special by Jesus Trejo, so I selected that one. But then I saw that 'the options were NOT "on Prime Video"!' The one I had picked was actually on ROKU (a totally different streaming service I had yet to download). And--in order to download it--I had to enter a password on a website (using my computer since I don't have a mobile internet device); and that introduced me to ROKU's site, where I explored to find "How ROKU works." https://www.roku.com/how-it-works Basically, I think it's "what TV-channels used to be." Even the name itself is Japanese for "six" (? ... as it's the 'sixth' company of its owner)---reminiscent of the days when TV-channels were basically just 'the frequency at which their broadcasts were received (assigned according to the order in which they were established).' Have you seen any shows on ROKU TV (either 'syndicated' or 'ROKU original')? Any thoughts?