The old white or silver remotes still work if you have one laying around.
or a lot of the smart remotes also have the apple codes built in,
also a trick I've learned, if you tap the four edges (not click) it works like the old directional buttons, a lot of the time when I'm having issues navigating, that normally works for me.
Or if it's being really obnoxious, if you hold the menu and volume up button, it will reboot the remote.
just be aware a lot of times, this turns the volume up in addition to rebooting.
Don't know if you had an aTV 4 at original launch, but at least they changed it so that now you have to be paused before you can fast forward / rewind. on the first version of software every time you touched the remote, you wound up a few minutes away from where you were watching
I swear 100% of the testing was done by someone sitting at a desk, and then they would set it down nicely beside their keyboard when they weren't using it, as opposed to randomly thrown on the couch in the dark like almost everyone who uses this in the real world.