I'm still happy using relatively cheap Android media players, so I upgraded recently to a rockchip based unit (MX10) running Android 8.
Netflix updates and runs mostly ok, however the latest versions seem to have dropped support for simple remote control with cursor keys, so you need something with touch-pad or mouse-like dragging.
Also, for reasons I haven't begun to investigate, every 5 minutes or so, video freezes for a few 10ths of a second. I think this is only with the Netflix app.