I wonder if this would have blown over more if iTunes had some sort of "hide album" feature from the get go? To achieve their distribution objective, I think it

I wonder if this would have blown over more if iTunes had some sort of "hide album" feature from the get go? To achieve their distribution objective, I think it had to be automatically added to libraries vs being a free "download". Comparing to Taylor Swift's removing all her stuff from Spotify, this all seems rather minor.