I have long been a supporter of Apple, and iTunes, but this new version is unusable for me. It's gotten to the point that I can barely move my mouse in iTunes without getting a beach ball. It feels like they (Apple) has been moving in the direction of making it unusuable for ppl with large libraries for a while now, and it seems like they've finally achieved that. I've never, ever done this, but I'm probably gonna end up downgrading from 12.2 just so I can actually use it.
As far as Apple Music, I have zero interest in any of these streaming services, and boy am I glad I didn't activate that free trial, because with the problems ppl are having with iCloud Music fukking up their personal music collections, I might've killed somebody if that had happened to me. I have two different ways of streaming my music to me no matter where I'm at, and neither of them includes Apple, Google, Spotify or whatever else is out there. The fact that Apple is trying to force me into Apple Music is disappointing to say the least.