I was, yeah. Thankfully, I just found mklement0's excellent answer at stackoverflow.com/a/58177016 which gave me a much simpler and intuitive syntax that allows me to ignore namespaces entirely.

XPath with namespaces, mostly. Plus the fact that it returns an object so I need to write additional code to just get the value, which is the only thing I need. I've got it working, I just hate how it looks; there's nothing simple or elegant about any of this.

That's a Serious Sam bundle at the top

For example, there are at LEAST four different musicians that Tidal groups under "Vana"

It's so bad it makes Picard look good by comparison.

It's already sort of the plot of the episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too"