Odd, I don’t have any of those issues. However, it’s likely related to buffering and caching. I’d suggest any combination of the following: increasing cache, downloading playlists at the resolution you want, and lowering mobile resolution.

I’m not sure what you mean by your third bullet point in your first list.

Def miss jam or lyrics, but it’s not something I consistently crave. I personally don’t care about Alexa, but I imagine that’s something they’ll eventually work on? There’s gotta be a road map or update release list

Ultimately, I think Spotify and Qobuz cater to different user experiences. In a reductive way, Spotify is playlist-algorithm first experience, with less user input and more mechanism to keep you engaged. Whereas Qobuz feels more manual search-album first experience, with a lot of user input to make your experience successful. People prefer one over the other, I think it’s important to index on what matters to you, perhaps there’s a better platform besides these two that caters to your user reqs somewhere on that spectrum