> Spotify is actually a pretty good example of this, they've been steadily removing context for a while. It's gotten to where it's impossible to see more than 5

> Spotify is actually a pretty good example of this, they've been steadily removing context for a while. It's gotten to where it's impossible to see more than 5 items at a time in a lot of their views. Spotify is a weird one: I'd gladly pay 2x (maybe 5x?) Spotify's price simply as a database of music files licensed for my own personal consumption, provided I get to use my own Spotify client software because I don't want their Chromium-based UI[1] (for context, I'm still using Winamp). But Spotify aren't listening: they donn't want my money unless they get to control the UX, but I want to control my own UX, and even though I'm prepared to pay a premium to compensate them for their loss of access to my desktop they aren't interested. Kinda reminds me of when Twitter Blue first launched: it still contained ads, and didn't come with any kind of Twitter API access to allow third-party clients. It's the worst of both worlds. It's definitely a part of platform-enshittification, but the frustrating part is that it's just unnecessarily harming the business via reputational-harm and poor power-user UX, and worst of all: leaving money on the table. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14088483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14088483