Michael Tsai reviews the HomePod: “their conclusion was that the problem of inaccessible albums is a known issue and that there is no fix yet”

Link. “I decided to return the HomePod mini, both because of the sound quality and because there was a chance of Siri working better on a HomePod 2”

Holy crap. Apple must pray nobody reads Tsai reviews of their products. Sadly he predicts my experience pretty well.