The launch of Kodi 19 will take place soon and with it come big changes that affect all hardware vendors.
The first important change is the switch to Python3 (the programming language used by Kodi plugins) which is incompatible with Python2 which was used previously.
The second big change concerns the video playback methods made by each of the hardware vendors. There was no cross-platform standard under Linux in the past, so many different adjustments and approaches were needed. With the release of Kodi 19 - standard video playback for Linux is used