Wow, total search failure on my part there; sorry for cluttering up the forum. I searched for “Hide empty TV” before posting this and didn’t find anything, but halfway through the post, I checked to see exactly what the actual setting was called to be more accurate with my title and realized that it was phrased as “Show empty TV…” instead. I should have re-run searches before finishing my post.
I’m definitely just running into the same issue described in Disabled "Show empty TV shows" not working correctly - #43 by sam_nazarko. I’ll go back to using Estuary for the time being, since that runs fine. I may try to back-port the hide-art-on-unwatched feature, since that’s the one piece I’ll really miss from the OSMC skin.