iTunes 10 and Apple's own sauce

So I will be up front. I didn't install iTunes 10 yet. I didn't order a new iPod or Apple TV. I looked at iTunes 10 though, and I wonder if someone missed something quite basic.

You see, a long time ago Apple introduced and pushed hard on their own Human Interface Guidelines so that users would have a uniform and understandable experience with Mac OS X and applications in OS X. Today, however, that appears to be irrelevant to the iTunes development team, who has decided that they don't have to follow the guidelines set out by their own company for design.

Can you imagine IBM using Comic Sans, lower-case, as their logotype?

Or Johnson & Johnson with Copperplate Gothic?

Apple, you created guidelines so users would have a comfortable experience with your OS and applications. Perhaps you need to go back to the drawingboard and review the software you've posted today with iTunes 10.

On a side note, I'm glad they re-introduced buttons on the Shuffle. Sometimes doing something because you can doesn't mean you should...