I enjoy it anyways, and Spotify is still a great service for now - I wonder if it'll meet the same fate as Netflix at some point, with publishing houses going for their own streaming services instead.
I don't think so because the way that people consume music and the way they consume films and television are very different. With a film you might block out a few hours to watch that specific provider. With music you're more likely to want to interleave content from several providers at the same time (eg a playlist). Unless all the providers are available on the same platform it wouldn't work well.
There's also a common use case where people will just play a specific artist for an hour. Or even an album.
Frankly, I hope services like Spotify don't disappear. It's a great loss to consumers just how fragmented video streaming services have become. I'd hate to see the same happen to music as well.
My wife uses them to shuffle singles by specific artists (she’s more into pop music).
I’d wager if my wife and I both coincidentally follow the same pattern despite doing so for different reasons, that it’s then likely a more common pattern than first assumed. Please also bare in mind that I’m not suggesting our use cases are how the majority of people consume music, but I’d be surprised if it was small enough to be a rounding error.
And then I worry skipping it is going to train the algorithm that I don't like Pink Floyd.
They probably meant listening in random mode, and Spotify randomly choosing a track that doesn’t make much sense outside the context of its album.