This saddened me as well but I wasn't too surprised.
I am coming from an HTC ONE M7 and my wife and I use the M7 as our main control for TV, Surround Sound Receiver, DirecTV Box, Western Digital Media Player, etc. Since her phone is in pretty rough shape (couple small screen cracks) compared to mine, I am going to try and get whatever I can for mine on eBay and just keep hers as our remote control.