As a long time user of Spotify (almost two decades in a couple of years...), this is my biggest gripe with Spotify:

https://i.imgur.com/wfSka2H.png

More and more playlists are starting to look like this, which is starting to piss me off. I don't really care if it's the record companies fault or whoever, and I blame 100% myself for getting into this situation in the first place.

Started to use Bandcamp more and more lately, and feel a lot safer because of it. I'm hopeful Bandcamp won't ever need to do layoffs either, as they are not trying to take over the world with their SaaS or pivot to focusing on Podcasts, or stuff like that.

But Spotify was really useful for a long time and still discovery is second to none.