When a TV cannot watch TV

Nowdays TVs are inexpensive. Huge LED (QLED whatever) screens are just a few hundred bucks with light-weight flat screens with vivid colors as you can see from any electronic stores. Well these are really giant monitors now it can be hooked up to your Wifi and show internet channels and you can cast your computer or your phone to it using things like Chromecast or Apple TV.

Now the problem is this... out-of-the-box you cannot see your local TV stations. You need an antenna. I guess it is only difference between monitor and TV... TV has a port for antenna. Yes, those pulled out "rabbit ears" antennas that you may poke your eyes or with some fish-bone antenna on your roof top (anybody still uses it?). Why TV does not come with this? Feels like buying a car without giving you tires.

Ok, I still have an antenna. Let's try it... ok, navigating through its wacky menus and found the scan stations button. Good. Found most basic stations like 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 32. Ok fine I just need a couple. Then a few days later.. where is my channel 5? gone! rescan. then boom 7 is also gone. What the hell? Scan again boom then 5 came back but not 7? I don't live in a cave where there are no TV signals. Even when channels are here sometimes they just choke! Yes pull the antenna out, attach foil, spin around may help... sometimes.

A trsty old Zenith traditional (not internet-enabled) TV that I had for decades never lose stations and never choke.

Just why the hell basic functionality does not work here.

Found a solution and that is locast.org, it is basically free and only require your email address and want some donations. You can use its phone app to get local TV stations on your phone then chromecast on. your TV. But it only works for 15 minutes and it will nag you to pay. Why do I have to pay for free tV?

There I can do basic stations and when do I have to figure out why that antenna does not pick up some stations?

Someone should figure out how to get stations consistently and include such reliable antenna with the TV. Otherwise don't call it a TV, but rather: giant-LED-monitor-that-if-your-lucky-can-watch-TV-but-you-have-to-pay-extra-for-antenna device.