I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!
Here is the manual.
There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.
I’ve had a set of those circulating through the family for well over a decade. But, they don’t sound all that great.
Fort the same budget, I’d recommend instead to buy a higher quality pair of bookshelf speakers that you would actually enjoy using fort the rest of your life.
I also made a YSK post recently to explain how to objectively identify good speakers.