In my 20+ years of working within and managing development teams, no one ever follows the book, and most project teams are flush with people that know the langu

In my 20+ years of working within and managing development teams, no one ever follows the book, and most project teams are flush with people that know the language, but nothing about the actual execution. Companies gush volumes about their rigid adherence to excellence and perfection, because proposal and marketing teams are distant from development teams that often scramble incessantly, not to innovate, but more-so to just use duct tape to keep things running without showing errors on the front end. Human psychology experts and product owners now also join into the mix for these large platforms too, which greatly contaminates development goals and ruins enthusiasm by overcomplicating and superseding the sense of accomplishment that development work is meant to create. It's a vicarious cycle of abuse to be an entry level dev on a mega corp product now... May God have mercy on anyone interested in working for those brutal companies... heh. As a musician that's been on Spotify for years, it really does not need to be exalted that much... It's music streaming that doesn't pay a sht on a stale bean cracker to musicans... Spotify's UI has been terrible in my opinion since it started, with it's full screen madness and prohibition on copying and pasting song titles. The song sharing features prevent much from being productive, and everything is designed to drive you away from the one artist you came to the site to hear. It's bewildering to me how artists are expected to pay a minimum of $250 US on marketing to promote themselves on the platform just so they can show the public they're worth being listened to based on the value stats that spotify prominently displays to extort musicians on their profiles.... They're still going to give one single talk show host the majority of the money you pay to them. Music streaming has literally been around since the age of Mp3.com, the only real advancement that's been added by Spotify since then is nonsensically still calling radio shows "podcasts" (even though iPods are retired), embedding ads into streams, and maybe making people spend a lot of time creating and promoting already popular music and playlists for money. Spotify is a wildly overvalued and wildly under-delivering service... At least YouTube has music videos to hear and view the content that it's very underpaid musicians create. (Just a personal blunt opinion though).