APA Title versus Sentence Case Pet Peeve

It’s always annoyed me that in APA style, titles of articles and books are sentence case within the reference list but title case elsewhere (e.g., the title of the paper and in-text mentions.) It makes maintaining a reference list in Zotero and elsewhere a disaster as it’s about 50/50 whether the title will be pulled back in sentence versus title case. I just stumbled on a very dissatisfying explanation that dates back to 1929 of the history from the APA blog. Apparently, editors at the time preferred sentence case for “its readability and perhaps for reducing cost and space,” and APA 7th has stuck with it for (IMHO, weak) accessibility reasons – “sentence case for titles within references was more readable.” But, is it? If so, then why the capitalization in-text and on the title page? Either way is fine by me; it’s just the inconsistency that becomes a citation management PITA.