I never use the Album views because I tend to visualise my collection as Artists first. I would never think of trying to find an album by its title, I don't remember them, I would always search for the Artist first. So to that end, my views always have an Artist level first which then drills down into Album. Problem solved!
However, for those who do search by Album, I wonder if this could be solved with the expression language, i.e. allow the user to group/sort by, say, a key of Album+Artist but display Album title only. They could elect to choose to display "Album (Artist)" if they want, but the crux of the matter is to allow a different display string from the string that is used to group by. I don't *think* this facility exists at the moment? Although there is in various places a way to define the string that is displayed on any one particular item.
This approach would help to rationalise/fix a number of other logistical problems too, e.g. sorting albums by a grouping that is something other than either an artist or an album artist. In other words, a sort artist. (My usual example is to group all Adam Ant albums by "Ant, Adam" regardless of whether it's an Adam Ant album or an Adam and the Ants album. Also, I have a friend who has been in several bands - I like to sort his albums by his own name rather than the individual bands' names) .
I might have missed some built-in functionality here but the way I dealt with this was to define my own custom field called Sort Artist and group albums by an expression of Sort Artist if it exists otherwise Album Artist, the only issue is that I then get artists displayed as "Surname, Forename", i.e. the way they're being sorted, rather then "Forename Surname".
Just an idea!