You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.
I heard recently that some radio station here had developed an app that they were promoting. One huge feature of the app was that it could send you a notification when your favourite song...
...was playing on the radio station, so that you could then turn on the radio and listen to it.
This was - unironically - the big thing they were using to try to get users to download their app. I can't even. This is so dumb.