That last part is the most important point - the main point. Your comment shows the exact issue as the "you don't need a dislike button because our AI knows better." You read my post, you read all the comments on here with users either jumping through hoops or ditching the product, you read the comment like what I replied to saying "we know what you need better than you do."
That last bit is a person thinking some crap code they wrote can figure out why someone doesn't want to listen to a song at a particular time. They ignore all the inputs into that decision - how tired they are, what day they had, are they angry at something, have they heard it on another medium recently. Then ignore all that data they don't have, and have the AI make the decision: did you skip after 20 seconds? If you did, let's cut this genre out of your playlist.
This little thing, destroyed spotify's recommendation product. The people in charge of this, are going to destroy everything they touch, because they think their little piece of code, is smarter than the user, about what the user wants. You know, because the user can't code.
People making these decisions - well all I can say is I've met them. I've been personal friends with some. They have been passed up for jobs when I get called for a reference check. Because once they're on your team, they'll destroy your product, so they can feel personally superior.
So that last part is very necessary, because it's an extremely serious issue, exactly as I put it. But in your opinion it's not, so let's cut that part out because it's not necessary for what I was saying. Because you know better than me what I was trying to say.