Is Smart Resume not working properly or is it working as designed?

My Smart resume has stopped just shy of 1 or 2 commercials. Forcing us to watch them. It's as if it was designed to play them (similar to streaming apps that play ads you can't skip). Troubleshooting steps followed [no different than the numerous people who already posted about this nuisance.] 

-restarting modem and/or box

-signal refreshes

-replacing box 

-replacing modem

At this point it appears to be working as it's designed to do. Like I stated earlier- the same ads being forced to play are some of the same insurance ads you can't skip on other Streaming apps. The other commercials are Network related (think "The Voice" when watching a recorded show on NBC. It started sporadically over the year- to now just an every fast forward process.