And I find it exactly the opposite. I have been tagging my music fully and completely since MP3 (!) days, so Roon works perfectly for me; in fact, the idea of a folder driven interface makes no sense to me at all - I’d never be able to find anything 
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you’ve hit the nail on the head here.
the problem as i see from my perspective, is that there’s all this sort of flurry of lovely roony involvement and lots of discussion about this and that improvement, all very lovely and interesting, but very rarely does anything actually happen on the ergonomic front to improve stuff. And to make matters worse there’s a very severe luddite wing on these pages who just see any changes as sacrilege almost, so it seems to put a hold on the devs or steers the dev to hardware issues rather than really evolving Roon into something more than special.
I am really keen to see Roon develop in so many areas but it really may be a lifetime before we see significant changes. SInce I’ve had Roon (around 17months now?), flame me if I’m wrong, but i think there’s really only been some minor radio algorithm changes, one click play and… erm…that’s it, in terms of significant (or even any?) ergonomic changes.
As I say, I really like Roon and it’s still the best for me out there, but as for healthy and exciting discussion about future developments, it’s now on my life’s too short list.
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Another chirp about Classical fans, navigation sucks, how anyone can think a Composition search is the answer confuses me. I have over 1100 Bach works
How do I pick a piece to listen when I really want an album
Despite suggestions there has been no moves to help
Mike
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Your final sentence betrays you my friend. Roon has its shortcomings but all of them do. It is just that some can be lived with or adapted to, others cannot. And that seems to me to be a personal thing. I can absolutely assure you Roon isn’t just an expensive bit of audio jewellery to me. I have tried others and found them wanting. I just found Roon to be less so than others for what I do. Ultimately my epiphany came when I realised I didn’t have to look at desktops and folders. I didn’t have to maintain a temperamental operating system and I didn’t have to teach myself Linux. But before then I had two trials, the first was unimpressive, the second showed me enough to give Roon a year. Seven months in I paid for life membership.
Indeed, the claim for folder view seems technologically really progressive to me. 
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I’m afraid the adage, “sell the sizzle, not the steak” has taken hold at Roon. MQA sells subscriptions, ‘ergonomic changes’ don’t 
Yes, but by buying the sizzle, you still get the steak…
haha, but I’d love a bit of fillet mignon rather than rump now and again 
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What a confusing interface, I’ll keep Roon thanks, but to each his own.
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Let me add a third type to this discussion: I enjoy using Roon to collect and expose the treasures in my collection and enjoy listening to them, multi-room, without worrying about tagging, sorting and what-have-you. Hey, even my partner knows how to use it!
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Folder view is the last feature I would like to see in Roon…there are tons of “Android-like” players out there, please enjoy them.
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This topic has run its course and degenerated into debate about trolling. Mods have deleted posts that were about other posters.
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You don’t like what someone is saying, so you staple their mouth shut? That goes perfectly with my last paragraph. So much for free speech.
Last post. Just to offer apologies, clarification, and condolences.
Apologies to anyone that was offended, felt singled out, or personally attacked in any way. I still consider this “dummyware” and cannot see paying $20 for it, nevermind half a grand. If your goal is to actually pick out and listen to music in the most direct and hassle free way possible, Roon is probably not what you are looking for.
Clarification. Many of my points were taken out of context or twisted in a way to make it look like I didn’t know what I was doing. Here were my issues…
-Ropieee sounds flat and uninvolving to me. The simple fix was to use another DLNA capable program. At its core Roon is just a DLNA streamer anyway. J River even offers this functionality. J River is no better or worse than Roon. Just a different and cheaper brand of awful.
-Forced or at least very hard to avoid shuffle mode. Maybe there was a setting to neuter this feature, but the default option was death by shuffle.
-Forced or at least very hard to avoid radio mode. I actually liked the radio feature in theory. In practice having the radio feature forced on me after everything I choose to listen to made me hate the radio feature. I disabled it and it re-enabled its self the next time I played something. Maybe there is a way to permanently disable this feature, but the default option is be cloyed with carefully chosen music from my collection.
-No direct access to folders. The whole “adding this feature would run counter to the goals of Roon” and even having people say that they wouldn’t even know what to do with such a feature, along with the last two complaints feels very culty. Software is suppose to be written to allow end users with different preferences to be able to interact with hardware in a way that suits their needs. Having the designers vision unilaterally forced on all end users with no consideration for what they actually want is like living in a dictatorship. Paying $500 to live in a dictatorship is insanity.
Condolences to anyone who bought into this. I just don’t see any value here.