I appreciate the reply, and completely understand that every enhancement or change needs to be prioritised (which inevitably means some requests may never make it to the front of the development list). Some comments on your reply, if I may.
To be honest it’s not so much a preference to not use the watchlist, but rather that it’s too cumbersome for my use case. Right now I have 104 movies in my ‘scheduled to watch’ list and 32 series I’m tracking. When I sit down to watch something I typically know I want to watch a movie or start a series. Having all of those mixed in a single Watchlist adds (for me) unnecessary clutter.
I’m not alone in this opinion, but we may still be a small minority 
https://forums.trakt.tv/t/trakt-for-apple-tvos-watchlist-in-alphabetical-order-shows-movies-seperated/35743
Adding sorting and filtering to the Watchlists will help - although I’d still like to see separate Movie and Series watchlists plus filtering/sorting.
As for iOS options, I’m referring to things like ‘hide up next’, ‘hide recently watched’, etc. With options like these you can reduce display clutter which, IMO, is more important on a TV app than a tablet or PC display.
As I said, I understand that all input has to be prioritised, and hope you welcome the feedback. I’ve also noticed some odd operational issues, but will post those elsewhere (may be bugs, may be integration issues outside of your control).