At this point competition is one of the great solution to this problem.
Ultimately, these policies are meant to further restrict viability of competition by either company.
Competition only works if the competition is effective enough to change user habits. For the average person not educated in monopolies or tech regulation, is there any incentive for them to switch to paying Spotify instead?
Other examples of frustration induced by competition are:
- Epic Games Store timed exclusives (people would rather just use Steam)
- The fragmentation of streaming video across a dozen different paid services, each with their own exclusive licensed content (people would rather just save money by paying for a single service with everything on it).
If it's 30% cheaper, that may be enough of an incentive. Though I don't know if that's the case here or if Spotify just eats the fee when you pay through Google.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/04/apple-to-charge-27-fee-for...
This is the type of damage the people who say "it's their store, they can do what they want" inflict. Apple got away with their dreadful behavior, Google would be foolish not to follow.