Yes, though I think smart shuffle might be a default mode for playlists.
People who enable these functions will expect spotify to pick the best guess of what music they would enjoy. Not what music costs spotify the least to play.
If this is only a little bit worse, people will likely not notice. But they will miss out on new music. Certainly this is how I normal find new music.
I might have disabled this functionality many years ago. I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist.
You see, I don't like Spotify. I don't trust any of those huge platforms, I expect them to actively work against my interests. I always disable or avoid anything they want to suggest me, and view it with suspicion, if now outright contempt.
>I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist.
I thought that was always the default behavior unless you paid or something? You find a song you wanna listen to, and then Spotify just spits out a playlist for you, in a Pandora esque radio way where you don't have control over the susequent songs played.
I liked Pandora back in the day, but there was something offputting about how Spotify implemented this. So I never really bothered and made my own playlists.
If this is only a little bit worse, people will likely not notice. But they will miss out on new music. Certainly this is how I normal find new music.