I am in the same boat, though I don't think its the catalogue for me. All the major services have practically the same catalogue. Its their recommendations and

I am in the same boat, though I don't think its the catalogue for me. All the major services have practically the same catalogue. Its their recommendations and playlists. No one else is remotely close; the UI is absolutely dense with new music it thinks you might enjoy, left right and center, every button you press is like "hey here's a playlist" "hey what about this artist" "here's new music you'll like released this week". And: Its freakin good at it. Literally no one else in any industry has figured out recommending new products like Spotify has. Amazon recommendations suck. Netflix recommendations suck. I discover new artists legit daily via Spotify. Apple Music and Tidal are empty in comparison. Its better at displaying the result of `GET /library` in a default SwiftUI table, if thats what you want. Its the non-mobile experience. Apple Music is abhorrent on the web (which is necessary for AM subscribers on Linux/Windows? Maybe iTunes still works? Idk). Its better, but still pretty bad, on the Mac. Spotify has near-perfect parity across Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android, in features, performance, and experience. Now; you can argue that, in an absolute sense, their UI is worse; I don't agree with this take, but its a reasonable one; at least its consistently worse across every platform. And I'll go and say it: Its the bundling of Podcasts and Audiobooks. I don't love the UI they've built to get at all these features. But, I've switched my podcasts to Spotify, because I'm constantly shuffling between listening on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux; there are very few podcast apps that have a comprehensive library, have an S-Tier app on every consumer operating system + web, sync listening status/history, and are free* (because I already pay for Spotify). So, yeah; I stan Spotify. I physically and deeply cannot vibe with the article. You're mad that they moved the... shuffle button? Seriously? If products don't innovate, nerds get mad. If they innovate too much, nerds get mad. The pace at which Spotify changes their product, usually for the better, is something every major company on the planet envies. Change isn't always good; but the ability to change is extremely good.