Live Updating Is Still Broke

Reposting from a previous thread that was closed with no response because this issue still hasn't been fixed.

Why is live updating broken in Apple Music?

I spent nigh on $2000 dollars on a new iPhone 14 Pro, finally deciding to ditch my old iPod classic. With the intent that the new terabyte iPhone would function as the ultimate iPod, but the most important features to me simply do not work: Live updating in smart playlists. And yet the interface for the features remain.

These rules above do not work. Songs are not removed as soon as they are played. Rules like these, again, are the most import feature that Apple Music provides, and yet they do not work. If they did work then I would only listen to any given song once a year, which is bliss. Rules like these DO work with my iPod, however.

Is it just me, or is the Apple Music dev team lazy? I think Steve Jobs would be rolling over in his grave if he knew this sort of thing was going on.

I plan on paying for Apple Music as soon as the 30 days is up. I've spent hours tweaking things trying to get this to work. It seems that any smart playlist that has the "Limit to" box checked behaves has if the box is not checked.

My library consists solely of ripped CDs stored on an external hard drive. Is that the issue? Would it work if the songs were obtained by streaming? I'm not interested in that. I want to be able to unwind around camp to Lefty Frizzell after a hard day of backpacking in the Wind Rivers. There are no cell phone towers in the Winds.

Perhaps the issues is that I imported a library file from my PC onto my new Mac? Only about a third of the songs successfully imported. Probably has to do with file path issues. I've spent many hours manually importing the rest.

Do you know how hard it is to get hired as a dev at Apple? And yet they are putting out this type of product?

Why in god's name would a company as esteemed as Apple have an interface for features that do not work? If my project manager decided to put out features that did nothing, they would be fired in short order.

The only reason I bought my new iPhone is because of smart playlists. I'm not exaggerating. Laugh if you want to. I don't care. As far as I can tell, Apple is the only company who does smart playlists. But now they don't work.

I've seen a few other posts with this exact bug. And the consensus seems to be that "well it's disappointing that the feature does not work anymore."

This is disgraceful.