Because it makes it easier to access the info below the fold. The limit should only apply to a very tiny % of artists.
It doesn’t make sense for this to apply to the Various Artists section since there is no info for the artist.
Is there any possibility you could make the overflow menu a customisable option for those of us who do have larger collections for their favourite artists, and don’t require all the extra stuff at the bottom of the artist page? When browsing my music to decide what to play, I’ll often enter an artist screen and start browsing down the list until something takes my fancy. I then reach the 30 album limit, realise “damn, need to hit that overflow menu”, then scroll back to the top of the list to press it, then get a list of albums that doesn’t match the sort order of the main list.
This seems to be a good example of overcomplicating what used to be a simple big scrollable list. By adding an option you could keep another set of your users happy and let them do what they want faster… which is get to and listen to their music.
I’m not trying to come across as negative and moany here - it’s a genuine request that I feel would help out a certain “type” of your userbase. Too many music players nowadays are trying to overcomplicate things with so-called smart features that get in the way for those of us who just want to browse their local collection in a quick and easy manner, find an album and play it.
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I’d be willing to consider increasing the limit, but if we’re talking an artist with hundreds of albums, there are efficiency issues with displaying that much data outside of the virtual paged grid we use via overflow, and again, I don’t want to make it that hard to reach the beneath-the-fold info.
At the very least, you should add a button to expand at the bottom of the list, too. If I’m 15-30 rows down (depending on configuration), I have to scroll all the way to the top to expand into a list sorted in a different order. That’s counterintuitive. Or, instead of making it a whole separate screen, maybe a “load more” button that just expands right where you’re at. That would address the load efficiency and give every user, regardless of preference, a reasonable compromise.
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That’s somewhat complex to do, and can lead to usability issues around scrolling and opening/closing.
And we can disable the carousel view 
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