I dislike iTunes as well as the built in music player on my iPhone just due the bad UI and some difficulty downloading songs to my phone. I also use it with iTu

I dislike iTunes as well as the built in music player on my iPhone just due the bad UI and some difficulty downloading songs to my phone. I also use it with iTunes match for all my music and I listen many hours a day and do curate my collection with it. It's not perfect, but it's not exactly clubbing baby seals. It's always respected my metadata changes even when things start out wrong. I think I got boned a few times when match mixed up explicit/non-explicit versions, but that is it. I still very much enjoy collecting music and I don't think iTunes is getting in the way of that. I really have to wonder what the author did to delete their entire collection in iTunes? That isn't a thing that is supposed to happen easily on desktop. The stuff I have synced with iTunes match is even harder to delete and there is warning when you try to delete the cloud copy. On phones yeah it's just a brain dead disaster with multiple ways to have it wipe.