Minor question

Lately I’ve been bothered by how redundant the recent row is on my fire stick. I don’t watch any prime content, so it just shows the apps that I use, which are the same apps that are first in the app row anyways. I’d given up on doing anything about it until I found out that you can play the show through Alexa and it’ll pop up on the recent row.

When using Alexa, it will play the correct episode I’m on, even though I just specified the show. But if I go to click on the show in my recent row, it doesn’t have any idea what episode I’m on. My question is, how come Alexa knows my progress in a show, but the fire tv interface doesn’t? This seems like an easy fix, but maybe it’s harder than I make it seem.