How is Music supposed to be used?

I've been subscribed to Music for about a year now. The quality of the audio was a huge step up, and is to be commended. However, I've found the apps to be very difficult to use.

For example (on the desktop app), Browse is of no use whatsoever, except if I scroll down and go to Browse by Category (though this option doesn't appear to be available on the TV app. It does appear to be duplicated on the Search page on desktop, though). Otherwise there is literally nothing of interest to me on the page - all the music listed is mainstream pop being pushed by the major labels that I don't listen to at all, which doesn't seem to be a very good use of app real estate. Similarly, Listen Now, although it's responsive to what I've been listening to, is a fairly ragbag and constantly changing collection of generated suggestions. For example, part of the page has recently been taken up by a playlist of British bands that are being pushed at the moment. At other times it's generic stuff that is associated with people my age that I avoided even when it came out.

I had assumed that over time these automated pages would adapt to what I'm interested in, but it seems not - some recommendations are based on things I listened to recently, but things I have no interest in don't go away and I can find no way of making them go away, and they take up most of the space. And things I listened to recently are not necessarily the things I want to listen to today.

The other problem with algorithm-based recommendations is that it is a disincentive to listening to things on a whim (similar to YouTube) - if you check out a few seconds of something you hate by mistake there's always the danger it will rewrite your recommendations.

There is search, and I do use that a lot, but the results are very inconsistent. Often it will return results that are similar to what I want, and it can take a while to navigate to what I actually want from there.

Is there something I should be doing to make the apps more useful? For example, is there a way of pinning preferred artists and genres so I have them immediately available? Can I make the mainstream pop stuff go away? On YouTube there is at least the Do Not Recommend This Channel option, which I use a lot, and has largely, blissfully, banished Jordan Peterson from my recommendations.

This is a bit of a moan, but I'm surprised that the app appears to be so unhelpful and that a year on I'm still using hacks to find things I that ought to be a browse or a search away.