I don't use Spotify. I'll take your word for it, though. I grew up with radio, and I used to like to listen to the college stations where there was no format

I don't use Spotify. I'll take your word for it, though. I grew up with radio, and I used to like to listen to the college stations where there was no format and the selections came from the personal taste of another person. On Apple Music, the curated playlists are OK in that respect. Also, since I live in Japan, the "Top 100" lists change really quickly and can include some interesting and surprising discoveries. My gripe isn't so much with the efficacy of recommendation engines, anyway. I'm complaining about the lack of useful basic search/sort/filtering. I would say about 50% of the searches that I run on Apple Music end with a blank artist placeholder page, or re-route me into the iTunes Store, or pull up totally irrelevant results, or otherwise end in confusion because there app, the store, the library, and the streaming service are all whipped up into a tangle that no one can seriously be expected to navigate.