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I use the web client, but I find myself lamenting how it's missing basic features, like playlist management (change song order, duplicate playlist); fortunately I don't use those often, but it is quite annoying.

The web client seems to install some DRM packages.

I've used ncspot extensively when on little ARM boxes - it requires a premium account, which I have, and it's just a nice little curses interface to Spotify, written in Rust, that seems to work on everything with a minimal of resource use.

raspotify/spotifyd aren't alternative desktop clients, they're connect clients, great if you want to modern-ify an old amplifier, but not useful for streaming.

All of the native desktop clients (psst, spot, etc) are missing quite a few features compared to the official client, and spotify-tui is nowhere near as nice to use.

Spotifyd can be a desktop client. It doesn’t have a UI, but you can send it commands over dbus.

Spotifyd on my laptop (often started initially with connect) is my primary method of listing to Spotify.

The web client is what requires widevine. The native clients use a custom (easier to bypass iirc) DRM scheme.