[cmrdporcupine]

Yep, YTM is/was so clearly the inferior product it's laughable. Even as a Google employee with a discount etc (I can't remember what that was, but) on these things I switched to Spotify when they dropped it.

I worked on a team that wrote software for Chromecast based devices. The YTM app didn't even support Chromecast, our own product, and their responses on bug tickets from Googlers reporting this as a problem was pretty arrogant. It was very disheartening to watch. Complete organizational dysfunction.

I think YTM has substantially improved since then, but it still has terrible recommendations, and it still bizarrely blurs between video and music content.

Google went from a company run by engineers to one run by empire-building product managers so fast, it all happened in a matter of 2-3 years.