I have a Homepod (short story, I needed a new speaker for the kitchen, and I was shopping for security camera at the same time) and it has been much more annoyi

I have a Homepod (short story, I needed a new speaker for the kitchen, and I was shopping for security camera at the same time) and it has been much more annoying than the simple bluetooth speaker that it replaced. The other day I was hearing strange sounds from it, rustling and crackling and murmuring, and I couldn't transfer the podcast on my phone to the Homepod like I normally do. I was convinced that either something was electrically malfunctioning, or one of our neighbors had inadvertently hacked it and were trying to watch an ASMR video, or worse, I was inadvertently listening in on somebody's open mic. I restarted the Homepod, started playing the podcast, and then my phone momentarily disconnected and the rustling and cracking started again! Eventually I figured out that the Homepod was playing a track from some experimental percussion album that I bought years ago and haven't listened to since. Killing the Home app on my phone stopped it. So the Home app plays music??? Why is this separate from the Music app on my phone that is for playing music? Why does the Home app not show when I check my phone to see what it's playing? Maybe the app that plays music is running on the Homepod, but it plays music from my iTunes purchases? In that case, why is killing the Home app the only way I can see to control it? I don't @#$%ing know. I don't care. I never asked it to play music that way. I don't remember being consulted. I didn't even know the functionality existed. I couldn't immediately see how to control what was playing, so I still don't know what the functionality is, and I don't care. All I know is that in the future when this happens I can stop it by killing the Home app on my phone. I can only imagine that the Home app and the Music app are developed by Battlin' Business Units who are fighting over engagement. The focus on engagement is turning technology into the equivalent of those squeegee guys who soap up your car at an intersection and hope you mistake it for a sincere attempt to be helpful. Except those guys at least care about the yield from their engagement, and if you look angry enough they won't ignore your attempts to wave them off. On some quarterly report somewhere, every shitty experience where a feature gets shoved in your face is celebrated as evidence of a successful feature launch.