I only find one significant interface drawback: important metadata such as the release year and the nature of the work (album or single) are not displayed
Fully agree that year is crucial part of music and album identification (along with name and albumart) and it should be displayed in a modern music player.
Officially it seems never to be implemented - Add "year" in player state
For myself I reimplemented albums and tracks pages for better UX, added year into state to be able to display it in any player’s UIs:
To be honest still wandering why authors against of the displaying year.