I hate itunes too.
To much program for what I want it to do, which is play music, and have a playlist. I don't need it to aggregate podcast feeds, sync with my non-existant ipod, see everyone in my networks music, try to guess what songs i like to listen too (which it does very poorly at), do a flippy thing through my album art, rip music, and try to sell me crap.
Right now, just starting up, it's already at 58.4M of physical memory. On the resource hungry OS X, every bit of ram is precious, so if I wanted to listen to music, in a playlist, i also have to load up a store, flippy album art, look at everyone else's music, and all that other crap, which is a textbook example of bloat.
If you want all that stuff, great, Itunes was made just for you, but if all you want is to listen to music, well, you need another solution. Neither of the two camps are superior or inferior to each other, just different needs that require different software. You wouldn't use a powerpoint presentation to do your accounting on would you? (well...i know some people what would
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