If they want to be a podcast company, that's fine. What I don't appreciate is the soft bait-and-switch. I subscribed to Spotify for the music. I enjoy podcasts

If they want to be a podcast company, that's fine. What I don't appreciate is the soft bait-and-switch. I subscribed to Spotify for the music. I enjoy podcasts too, but I have my own preferred way of listening to it (Pocket Casts). What Spotify is doing now is providing sub-par experiences in both. The home screen is cluttered by podcasts when I just want to use Spotify for music (especially infuriating on CarPlay), and the podcast UI is years behind what Pocket Casts offers. It's like they're not even trying to keep up the great service that drew in their customer base in the first place.