Yes, but... I used to discover great new (to me) artists on Spotify. Now I'm pigeon holed by "the algorithm", to the point where when I start a new playlist based on an artist or song it's 90% songs already in my liked list.
The recommendations used to feel like magic, now it's very limited in what it considered similar to something I'm listening to, like it fixates on one attribute of a song, but not the broader context or genre.
Personally, Discover Weekly went super downhill for me about a year ago. I used to get about one really good song a week, which I was really impressed by. But now, it's a deluge of songs with obviously fake instruments (the strings are a giveaway) and (presumably) AI-generated album covers. And the weird part is that sometimes a real, big name artist will be co-credited, but I highly doubt they had anything to do with it. (I've specifically noticed this with Audiomachine in particular, for some reason.)
I don't know if this phenomenon is related to the main article, but I've been wanting to rant about it for a while :-P
The recommendations used to feel like magic, now it's very limited in what it considered similar to something I'm listening to, like it fixates on one attribute of a song, but not the broader context or genre.