Tidal Track Bias

I noticed that after adding almost a thousand songs to a specific playlist, shuffle on Tidal always plays the oldest tracks first.

I am using tracks that span at least four decades. I have reshuffled dozens of times, deleted a lot of older tracks and even tried skipping forward a bunch of times to see if anything changed.

I get the impression Tidal Shuffle favors oldest tracks first. Has anyone else had any experience with this issue?

Shuffle is useless on Tidal for me if they are purposely directing traffic to whatever tracks are either the least expensive per hit for them or the most beneficial to them.

Looking for other opinions before I form a conclusion but so far Jay Z and Bennie The Butcher pop up way too often to fit any algorithm tailored to my listening patterns.