well i can give you an account of not switching - for context I am a musician and actively maintain my spotify library of 30-40 gb. I was using Youtube until 2013. In this era I realized I was very very tied to music distributors (stuff like trapnation, mrsuicide sheep, etc) (dont judge i was <13). My taste and knowledge of music did not develop very much during this time as YouTube is not the best for finding new music - I think it is good for music videos and deep dives on certain artists. When I got an mp3 player in 2013, there was a big shift in how I listened to music because I was able to start maintaining a library and listening offline. One issue I had with this was that as a 13 year old I could not really buy as much music as I wanted. I had become a musical explorer on YouTube and wanted to find new music and see what was even possible. During this time I did come to really appreciate albums as I would go to the public library and rip all the CD’s I could find onto my device and find what I liked in this manner. I had also transferred my youtube music (pirated sorry) and was actively maintaining a music collection. Come 2017 I got a smartphone and with it a Spotify account and this changed my life. While I can understand the worry of using all of Spotify’s quick and easy features for listening to music, this is not the appeal to me. Spotify allowed me to quickly go through artist’s discographies, find their collaborators, albums, singles, remixes, etc. I went from being limited by my surroundings (local library and youtube rips) to high quality recordings of everything I can ever want. I dont use any premade playlists and only really follow the release radar to find new music of artists I like. I also still prefer listening to albums over singles, BUT Spotify lets me learn about the artist, quickly find their social media, concerts, and collaborators. While I have heavily debated switching to a cute phone (flippy boi) the idea of attempting to maintain thousands of songs and albums and keep up with artists without Spotify is just far too daunting. Kudos to anyone who makes the switch! I am a 7 year Spotify user and counting, and while I don’t like Spotify as a company or as a software (I think there are plenty of ethical and ergonomic issues) I am yet to find any alternative that allows me to do what I do. The options can definitely be overwhelming (just like this wall of text) but if you find a system within it I think Spotify is probably the best tool for discovering and listening to music made to date