With the screen changes, the buttons change/move as well! How many times did I keep tapping on the ‘wrong’ screen real estate?!
I therefore suggest (optionally) having a fixed remote screen. Keep the playlist item constantly and let it display ‘stopped - nothing running’ rather than completely hiding it.
Thanks for the reply - I had been looking for the issue but seem to have missed a prior question (as I was not searching for “layout variant”).
I agree, variant 3 is a workaround - but only a workaround, as I actually use the the top (bottom) row of shortcuts even during playback sometimes and they get hidden in variant 3. Conceptually, I see a difference between layout variants and a fixed size/always shown ‘playlist item’. I would therefore still vote for an option to always display it.