Iphone ignoring song metadata changes

Why are song metadata changes made in iTunes not respected by iPhone, for purchased (via iTunes) content ?
I have a large classical music collection, and I use composer surname as my primary sort method. To do this, I blank the composer field for all non-classical music and ensure that for classical music, the composer name is listed by surname first - this means a lot of metadata changes.
This filing system works very nicely in ITunes on my computers and on my old iPods.
However, on the iPhone, my metadata changes are replaced by the original metadata for purchased content, so messing up my filing system. This apparently is known and 'normal' apple behaviour. And it is self-contradictory - for when i look at my device list of songs in iTunes on laptop, my metadata changes are listed as intact. I'm not sure whether the iPhone is simply ignoring metadata changes or whether the original metadata is over-writing via iCloud.
My question is, why would anyone design the system to ignore a user's metadata changes when using the iPhone ? In what way is this good ? And why not have a simple toggle switch 'respect my metadata changes on device - on/off' ? I can't believe I'm unique amongst Apple users in wanting to listen to classical music on an iPhone?!
many thanks Paul

Settings > Music > unselect "Group by Album Artist" seemed to work for me.

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