I love the gentle suggestion. I'll use that next time when I try explain to my wife about how it does annoy me as much as it does her. I would have really hoped

I love the gentle suggestion. I'll use that next time when I try explain to my wife about how it does annoy me as much as it does her. I would have really hoped the engineers that made clearly poor decisions (I cannot believe it is a fundamental system constraint) were brought to reckon on it somehow. Obviously not enough people at Subaru (or their OEM) cared. And you can't even (or I haven't worked out how to ) just have the media start muted every time you start the car. Often for a trip you just want to few moments of quiet contemplation thinking about what you have forgotten to take with you - and not the DJ yelling at you. I have a 2018 Outback for reference