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Spotify spends millions per month on lavish "creative" team salaries in NYC who do nothing but create gradient playlist covers and other low grade "design" work that is 100% unnecessary. All while they redesign and destroy their UX and product experiences every iteration. All of that money could go straight to the artists.

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At least someone in their design department keeps uselessly moving things around. The latest was tucking away the desktop application's search function into the sidebar, even though the space it used to occupy is now just wasted space. It feels like they are trying to go the Netflix way where the normal usage is just consuming whatever they put in front of you. But we're probably not even supposed to use it on desktop...

I don't agree that it is unnecessary.

I think Spotify's aesthetic and design is one of the things that keeps people from moving over to other platforms.

Nobody wants to use programmer art software. And these things are more carefully considered than most people would believe.

Granted, I have this opinion about shovelling money at podcasts creators, and I'm sure someone could tell me the same. But you know, 200mill for Joe Roegan. Ugh.

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