Annoyances with adding tracks to playlists

Why is iTunes (12) on windows so weird and inconsistent?
It's not terrible (WMP has big problems of its own) but its puzzlingly random in how the GUI works. Its like it was designed by several people who didn't talk to each other.
A major example - why are there are two different ways to add a track to a playlist?
(Actually there are three if you include using the main menu, but having a menu bar way and a context menu way is normal windows UI behaviour so that's fair enough, but itunes has two different context menus)
You can right click on the track, or you can left click on the little blob after a track name.
The first method gives you a list of playlists that can't be scrolled using the mouse wheel, and is extremely slow to scroll through (requiring you to click on the tiny arrow at the bottom of the list then hold the mouse button down for ages). But though the second method can be scrolled more rapidly, because it acknowledges the scroll wheel of the mouse, it doesn't let you add multiple tracks at a time, only the one whose blob you click on gets added, not the other selected ones.
Its weird - why have two different context menus, and then have each of them have different unnecessary limitations? Neither method is entirely satisfactory and you have to keep deciding which one to use for any given playlisting. If you want to add to a playlist which is at the end of the alphabet you have to use the blob method because scrolling down to it with the right-click method is tedious in the extreme. But if you want to add multiple tracks you have to use the right-click 'cos the blob method ignores the other tracks.
Why not just have one _good_ method instead of two bad ones?

jfgvui wrote:
Its like it was designed by several people who didn't talk to each other.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the case.
Just three? Don't forget you can also enable the playlists sidebar and use drag & drop or copy & paste.
Suggestions for improvement should go to iTunes Feedback.
tt2

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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