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.<p>It&#x27;s not perfect, but it&#x27;s not exactly clubbing baby seals. It&#x27;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&#x2F;non-explicit versions, but that is it.<p>I still very much enjoy collecting music and I don&#x27;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&#x27;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.<p>On phones yeah it&#x27;s just a brain dead disaster with multiple ways to have it wipe.