As someone who considers them very much a music aficionado I disagree with your conclusion. According to Spotify's 2021 review, I listened ~55k minutes of music

As someone who considers them very much a music aficionado I disagree with your conclusion. According to Spotify's 2021 review, I listened ~55k minutes of music across ~3300 artists. It is impossible to think I would have found 75% of those artists had it not been for Spotify's discovery recommenders. Release Radar was my most listened personalized playlist and it constantly introduced me to new artists in and around the genres of music I was listening to. I listen to a pretty diverse range of genres (everything from death metal, edm, hip-hop and country). Perhaps I never grew up having to dig through piles of records, I was a child of the era of 100+ page books of CDs and the introduction of Napster but I still very much find discovery through these services to be hands down more efficient and cost effective for me. I could not afford to listen to the amount of music I consumed last year if I were purchasing records/CDs/tapes.