That’s because it isn’t just streaming music. If you look at the composition of almost any page, there is a ton of information listed. A lot more than you may see on a comparable Tidal page. Every time you pull in a view, Roon is going out over the internet and pulling all this information in. It clearly comes from a variety of different sources. It’s then all maintained in a database that’s keeping track of all the data and presenting it in a hyperlink-associated way.
It may also need to send different streams of music to a variety of different endpoints, with various degrees of digital signal processing.
Since there is so much going on, Roon is heavy on the computer and the network. The fancy GUI comes at a cost. That might not make you feel any better in your situation, but that’s why it takes more than an ordinary streaming service.
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