[bkury]

One minor UI comment, when sweeping left, the shut down button is selected by default.
Probably having Exit as default would avoid unnecessary shut down in case of rush.

That's strange, shutdown is actually the last menu item and shouldn't be focused by default. Does this also happen when you restart KODI and then navigate to the submenu? 

The only thing that I can think of is that you have hidden some submenu items (Settings --> Home Menu --> Submenu) and because of that "Shutdown" is now exactly in the middle of the submenu and therefore the item which is focused first.