The thing that nobody seems to acknowledge is that iTunes really has gotten a lot better over the last year.

At this point it should be called iHydra, given how many separate roles have been shoehorned into it.

How so?

The Quicktime-based GUI has become a lot more responsive, even as they've added more features. That was my main complaint -- the idea that a 2D UI should bring a 3 GHz processor to its knees.