[kitsunesoba]

They also slowly, semi-silently killed off libspotify without ever providing a proper replacement (despite promising such), taking down several open source clients in the process.

It's baffling. They could've had a distinct advantage being one of the only developer-friendly (and thus highly flexible/adaptable) streaming services on the market, but they instead decided to toss that in the garbage bin and push usage of the official client, which sees constant frustrating UI changes for no good reason.

[kingosticks]

I do agree with all of this. But I would say that despite all the screw-ups, missed opportunities and general incompetence, I think Spotify still offer the best features/API for developers. Which is a sad state for us.