Hi @JASON_MILLER (and @mdconnelly) thank you for the feedback and the question here.
The behavior you are currently seeing is by design and we have a few threads in the “feature request” section of the community site asking for the same functionality (example #1, example #2). I have since flipped this thread over to the “feature request” section as well as this is the best venue for having your opinion/voice heard by our DEV team.
Additionally, I also did some research to see how some of our users are currently working around this for the time being and a general method appears to use “file tags” in Roon to be able to search albums via the rating you gave them.
-Eric