Smart playlists don’t honor the “Show empty TV shows” in Kodi 17

I just spent about 2 hours setting up Kodi 17 with Emby and customizing the Titan skin. It looks awesome and works great.
One small issue…

My entire menu system is based on Smart Playlists. I separate Kids and Parent TV/Movies, workout videos, and a few other things based on playlists.
This worked perfectly on Kodi 16 with the showhiddenfolders advancedsetting.xml setting. However, with Kodi 17 every empty tv show/folder is visible. This leads to a ton of extra scrolling and cognitive overload in the UI.

Anyone else running into this issue? It seems like a pretty big problem considering the “Show empty TV Series” setting has been moved to the primary interface.