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Hm, then I would have to toss DTS passthrough in my case. (New Firestick)

Not that great a deal. There's a workaround for the "showing no menus" problem that works in most cases. You can just fast forward till the menu reloads and usually it appears then.
This issue should still be fixed, as it is very annoying, I think, but I'm not giving up DTS for this comparatively minor nuisance.   

New firestick does not need a shitty build. It does DTS / AC3 by default.   

My Firestick 2017 incl. Alexa didn't do it with official Kodi 17.3, that's why I'm on shitty. I don't know anything about the new 3rd Gen Fire TV, though.

Or does this mean the 18.x nightly versions again include DTS passthrough? With 17.3, DTS wasn't even in the settings on my Kodi/Firestick set. 

No. We support proper SW implementation.  The new firestick (released 8 weeks ago) has proper DTS support. The older FireTV sticks don't. As amazon does not want you to have them. BTW. they patched OUT DTS in RAW mode again from the 3rd gen, but did overlook the new IEC format ... that's the only reason that stick will have DTS supported. If you did not get that yet: amazon only wants to provide to you the limit implementation to fully play THEIR content and nothing else.

I don't even understand why one would support such a company, that does everything to break the SW (Android has good working DTS support since more than 1 year now) ...