I think you're totally off base here. Every new feature that's been added to iTunes has only served to improve its user experience. Certainly there are some features I ignore (like the entire genius section), but I still see how others would find those features useful. This isn't a mobile app we're talking about here. iTunes is better the more multifunctional it can be. The term "bloatware" doesn't really apply here as it has always been intended to describe software that is overloaded with features that don't fit the the implementation (like MS Office where half its features don't even work properly). Really, if you were to separate out the individual features from iTunes you would end up with clumsy software with a lot of overlapping functionality. If you were to make iTunes' video functionality into a separate app the two would look and act exactly the same as they are now. If you were to pull out the iTunes music store into it's own app it would just add an extra step between buying/subscribing to content and actually viewing/listening to it. If you separate out the ipod functionality into its own app you just make it harder to put things from your iTunes library onto your ipod. Not to mention that I've never noticed any problems with speed or ease of use when it comes to iTunes. I have it going in the background constantly and it never takes me more than a few seconds to adjust what I'm listening to or watching, regardless of what else I might be doing. In regards to the new icon, I think it's a welcome change. Other than being a tad underwhelming the new icon is a lot sleeker than the old one.