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Everything up to Ruby getting suspended in the air I understand and was fantastic. After that though, I struggled to see the logical reason behind anything
1) What was the purpose of the musical battle? The Doctor was looking for the chord, so I guess I can vaguely see him going through songs for something like inspiration, but why did the Maestro play as well?
2) How did Lennon and McCartney come around the corner, see magical floating notes in the air that could be anything, not get freaked out and know exactly what to play?
3) The musical ending. I guess it could be reality-bending remnants of the Maestro disappearing buy it's completely unexplained and serves zero purpose. I was waiting for a little twist at the end somewhere but nothing.
It just felt like a lot of spectacle over substance. If the whole episode was silly then fine, silly episodes are great, but it was set up as something so serious and dramatic. Tonal whiplash.
I personally took it as a metaphor that the musical geniuses of each generation are the ones that put these emotions we all feel to notes on a page. They express how we all feel through music. The doctor is us in the scenario. It took the musical geniuses to actually express it properly. He was able to get close. But they sent it over the edge, so to speak. This is why their music resonates so much with us.
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That might be why it didn't click for me - I took the episode as pretty fun and silly, and then they just amped up the silliness for the end bit.