> To be fair, streaming services are usually not at fault here. They have to negotiate with the content owners

If their behavior has resulted in an ecosystem where the art doesn't reliably make it to the artists' audiences then perhaps they are a little bit at fault. That's their job and they're doing it poorly and they're big enough to influence the factors that constrain them if they cared about doing better.

Exactly. This content is actually important to people, despite the common idea that culture, even purely entertainment culture, not to mention more artistic things, is a commodity.