It’s a pet peeve of mine to continually hear about how the Apple Music app is bloated.

Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places.

What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app?

I have a lot of complaints about the app but “slow” and “bloated” are not on that list. It’s just an outdated take.

It's not about the feature set. The Music app is the only software I use which randomly locks up my whole mac, just trying to do basic stuff like play a song or navigate albums. Doesn't seem to be related to whether I'm browsing Apple Music or my own library. This is on both my M1 MacBook Pro, and on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio in the office. It's baffling that something that worked so well in 2008 is such a dog in 2025. It's like using winamp in 1998.