Former Spotify employee here. I worked on the original re-design back in 2013-2014 on iOS, the one that gave the current modern look. I don't like this new re

Former Spotify employee here. I worked on the original re-design back in 2013-2014 on iOS, the one that gave the current modern look. I don't like this new redesign as well, as it is extremely busy and tried to do too many things at a time. At some point, the features are just good enough, and they shouldn't have messed too much with it but gradually introduce new things, instead of going for such a messy redesign. This is very common once companies get large. The engineers and designer that made it a success move one, and New Designer Directors, new PMs come in, and they want to make their mark, and start changing things around, even if they don't need to. I still prefer play.spotify.com (the web player), as it is still the old design style.