Had to do a full erase and reset of my iPhone to clear 20 GB of space taken up by "Other"

But there has to be a more elegant way....  Why is this happening 3 to 4 years after people first started reporting it?  It always seems to happen when I decide to up the bit rate from 128 kbs to 192 kbs or higher.  iTunes is still apparently too stupid to realize that I want to REPLACE the 128 kbs files with 192 kbs versions and gives a "not enough space available" during the sync and leaves a huge pile of "Other" with no way to recover it other than an erase and restore.
So, what is the "more elegant" way of dealing with this?

Locked me out of editing my post....   I did the iCloudius restore, and it used up about 6 gigs and gave me a message that not all music could be restored and suggested I plug it back into my mbp to get the rest.
Doing that now, and I see that it is now listing the 6 GB as "Other" and is restoring the apps and music (some of which were already there), but now I have 6 GB of "Other" again.   Less than 20 GB, so an improvement, but seems to be some confusion between iTunes Match stuff and stuff synced directly from my 'puter.
I try not to use Match, because it eats up data on my daily jogs (who am I kidding, daily walks....)...
I may be able to reproduce this confusion.

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