No, you’re right. We shouldn’t have to work that hard.
I would go further: Roon should eliminate the concept of shutting down and relaunching the app. My Roon life should behave like one long session. The concept of shutting down an app is a technical artifact, driven my limitations of memory and battery and other uninteresting details. Roon should always record the current view I’m in, so that restarting can always bring me back to the same place, even after an inadvertent shutdown (crash, battery died, full moon).