Or rather that they are actively seeding each genre with content they don’t have the pay royalties on and giving preference to this content unless directed spec

Or rather that they are actively seeding each genre with content they don’t have the pay royalties on and giving preference to this content unless directed specifically otherwise, and the real sin here is not divulging that you’ve been hearing generic house brand “music” and pretending that it’s all equally valid content. This will become more obvious as algorithmic music takes over background music tasks. Spotify is evil in the sense that any other monopoly with perverse incentives trying to appear mellow and not monopolistic is. Netflix specials are labeled as such, and they put some effort and money into them, they aren’t cynical garbage like the Amazon knockoffs of Amazon listed merchants are, which fraudulently purport to be the same.