Audible. Just let me start listening to my book. Don't force me into "Discover" every time I open the app. Discover requires a network access and keeps me from doing anything else until it times out if my connection is not good. It could show me Discover when I close a book I just finished. That would make sense and not be intrusive and rude. No, they have to shove the monetization attempt in my face over and over. What PM made these choices? Geez.
I'm sure there's some engagement KPI metric that increased from forcing it in front of users. And even if it's a worse UX experience and the increase is due to frustrated users attempting to navigate away from Discover, you know those pesky details won't be included in their product and engineering "wins" ;)
Turning them into regular audio files and using your favorite player and having proper backups of the files is so much nicer. I'd straight up not use Audible if that was not an option, it's just not worth it.
