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It's fun (scary maybe?) how ones experience can be so different with the same software. I use Spotify daily on a number of different platforms (iOS, Android, Linux [Arch + Ubuntu], Windows and macOS) and never experienced any of those issues. I also can only remember ~3 redesigns since I started using Spotify back in 2007 or something like that, none of them have significantly moved around the playback controls, although the overall browsing experience has changed a lot.

Edit: Continuing to read the HN comments, it seems some people (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618177) have a constantly shifting UI, possibly driven by Spotify doing A/B testing. Could be that some locations (the US?) are subjected to this while others are not. I've used a total of 5 accounts since I started using Spotify, and never had anything change day-to-day when using it, so doesn't seem to be account-based.