[jrumbut]

The recommendations were nice because it meant you didn't have to manually curate playlists while you're out and about (but you could still search out a specific track if you want to). I viewed them as part of the value of a subscription and didn't mind if they were promoting artists via homepage links and such.

However, in just the last few weeks I've noticed the recommendations have gone from surfacing old favorites and interesting new (to me) music and is instead pushing stuff like that big podcast guy they signed.