Holy hell, Spotify. I've been using it a lot up to about 4-5 years go, both desktop and mobile. It was a fine app, I used it a lot to listen to music during commute. I curated some 20 personal playlists, and a bunch of shared ones too. But after I didn't need to commute anymore, I stopped using it.

Fast forward to January, my wife learned there are some good nursery rhymes on Spotify, and she installed the app on a spare phone. Few days ago, she was busy and asked me to play the Spotify playlist she usually plays to our kid. I couldn't do it. The current UI is completely inscrutable to me. All I could do is find a few album covers that, upon tapping, led to something that perhaps was a playlist, perhaps a "radio", perhaps something else. In 5 minutes of focused attempt, I couldn't find a way to list what songs are a part of the playlist I selected.

So I ultimately played something that looked like the right playlist, it played a song I recognized, then it played an ad, then it turned out to be a "radio".

It's rare that bad UX triggers a strong emotional reaction in me these days, but that did it. What the fuck, Spotify?