> I think a lot of people would probably look at my distaste of Spotify and recommend another, more suitable, streaming platform like Apple music or Pandora

Just go to YTM?

I stopped using Spotify when their client became slow and bloated. Then I went to GPM which was easy (didn't care for my library much).

Then onto YTM (which in the beginning sucked), but is now close to parity with GPM. Took them a while but they are close to there now.

I also found the recommendation algorithm of GPM better than Spotify and also YTM has better recommendations.