Apple lack of consistency?

Having been an Apple fan for many years I have become slightly disillusioned at the lack of consistency between products, especially the terrible user interface / remote of the Apple TV and now the iPod Nano 6th Gen.
I know this has been raised before and will probably be raised again but what's up with Album Artist support? It works the same in every Apple device I own - iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV. But not the Nano. It just doesn't work at all.
I also know there are plenty of 'workarounds' but I have 5 different devices synced to the same iTunes and don't want to have to add a workaround for the Nano that detriments the experience on the other 4 devices.
Does anyone know of any plans to fix this in a future release of the Nano firmware, or a workaround that doesn't involve editing every song with a featured artist in my library? It seems to have been a bugbear on many devices since the middle of the last decade, so surely it's on Apple's radar somewhere ?
Has anyone got an official word from Apple, ever, on this subject ?

I don't have a fix or any ideas on what to do with this because I never cared about album artist, just who I was listening to.
As far as a firmware update, there won't be one for the current iPod Nan because it is old. A new is possibly coming out next month and if so, you can see how that one works.

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