Sounds similar to Funimation (at least in Australia). AnimeLab was a perfectly good streaming platform: good UI, OP/ED skip function, always smooth and generally very few issues.
Meanwhile, Funimation is just laggy in general: the UI, the delay between 'start episode' and the episode actually starting, skipping forward to manually skip OP/EDs sometimes requires buffering, and for some reason while Chromecast it will just... stop after a while, I think an hour or so. Their app also has so many general issues and mistakes: I was rewatching KonoSuba with my partner and S2E1 was actually S2E2, and when clicking on S2E2 it played S2E1... not to mention that after that, S2E3 just... didn't have subtitles. At all. I had to listen to English audio for the first time in years, and god it hurts.
Crunchyroll is still decent (though lacks an OP/ED skip function), but god, AnimeLab was just so good and I fucking hate corporations for taking perfectly good infrastructure and scrapping it because they think theirs is an acceptable alternative.