I know that my anecdote is largely worthless at scale - but I've been with Spotify since high school and there isn't much, if anything, that will get me to leav

I know that my anecdote is largely worthless at scale - but I've been with Spotify since high school and there isn't much, if anything, that will get me to leave. It has my entire life wrapped up in the platform through all of my playlists - but the real value, for me, is still being able to access the profiles and playlists from friends that are no longer here that are preserved forever(.) - our stories are saved in the both the playlist name and songs within it that have never been removed from their catalog. I, like most everyone else at my school, was only using Pandora (in high school) - but it was not widely loved as it had been steadily going downhill (before 2015); when Spotify was released it, nearly instantly, captured me with the design [1], catalog, and ability to discover adjacently related artists. My 'Daily Mixes' are all very, very good - and I understand that is because I've spent the better part of a decade curating my experience. UI is whatever at the end of the day - sometimes changes are abrupt, clunky and non-intuitive (looking at you, Reddit Redesign ::middle finger::) but the underlying truth, for me, is that I'm fully adopted to the service - I've 'been there', so to speak: - I remember in 2014 when '1989' by Taylor Swift was released and her music had not been added to the Spotify catalog; it was a waiting game but it eventually got there - The 'Spotify Wrapped' was really fun to share with friends - and it still is! It was pretty funny to see 'Reddit Recap', along with other services, follow the format. Plus, I still have access to all of my old 'Wrapped' playlists since 2016. - They sent me a 'Car Thing' for free, I was able to have Hulu in undergrad, they've sent me some gifts for being a 'superfan' over the years which was fun. I hear what you're saying about uninstalling apps - the /spotify sub is kind of an echo chamber of complaints - which is okay and is their prerogative - but I just don't feel compelled to participate because I've been with it so long and it has consistently achieved the singular goal of what the service is, and does it very, very well (in my opinion). [1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/10-Year-Evolution-Spotify-Apps/ba-p/5331115 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/10-Year-Evol... (.) of course Spotify will remove those accounts at some point; but I've made my own backups of them so they are "immortalized" for when that day does come eventually.