The current OneUI media control panel looks bland as it is monotonous depending on whether you have light or dark mode.However, I'd suggest Samsung to revert media control kind of back to how it was in OneUI 3 or use the implementation of Google one ...
You have to pick one. Maybe force stop LockStar? Maybe it will work. I used to make minor changes with Good Lock so I could simply uninstall the responsible apps but yeah, LockStar doesn't even keep the log for lock screens