

Yes, absolutely. Look, you’re missing my point. Before Spotify you had to download or rip your music to your computer and transfer it to your phone. If you forgot/didn’t have time to do that, you were left without your new music.
With Spotify that disappeared. It was a major convenience to suddenly not having to bother getting new music in the first place and not having to synchronize folders in the second.
You never used Spotify. That’s cool and it’s great that you had a working solution going for you!

I can’t say I was very tech savvy at the arrival of Spotify so that’s fair. My setup at the time required me to connect my phone to the computer to do any syncing. OTA wasn’t a thing for my phone then at least.
I’m not gonna keep arguing with you about this :)