OK, please explain what exactly you expect when you pull own the quick panel and what you should see in one swipe, what application or media should be showing you want, etc. I am requesting earnestly.
When music is playing or any media is playing, notification shade always shows player controls just like it did on S24Ultra and every previous version of OneUI going back to TouchWiz days.
That has always been the default setting but now they've moved it to a second page requiring more swipes, or to other locations that you can't get to when the screen is on.
Ok, if the media is active in the background, it will show up, just like in my previous example. But you are not good on the grouping issue as being cluttered. That's fine I get it and it's purely a personal dislike. Maybe making a suggestion (I cannot remember how that works) and people agreeing with it could spur an update as Samsung deva read them.
Having said that, in the image I showed earlier, I get that using the panel setting for one swipe, you already explained that won't work for you in appearance. But if you have something playing, clicking on the the media output button on the one swipe your ok with, will bring up a separate applet showing what is playing and can be controlled from there. But once you get out of that view, then opening process has to be completed again to bring that back up. So for now, the only solution is to use the "Separate" setting in the panel settings to get in one swipe to see.
