> I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen?
You've either been lucky, or just havent noticed. Spotify used to be really bad for this, instead of it greying out in your library they used to remove every trace of it ever existing in your library, which massively sucked if it was an accidental or short term removal as it would never come back into your playlists.
Music is removed from streaming platforms all the time, it's not a rare thing, or a surprising one. As the other person said, google it and you'll see its a regular occurance.
> This assumes you work on the principle that you’ve found “enough” music vs. that you lost interest in investing in new music because of the cost of buying it.
(UK here so working on our pricing, convert as necessery)
Lets say you've bought/paid for your 2k songs. You put away the £10/month it costs for a streaming service. 6 months in you find a new artist, you want their album. You hop on ebay or wherever to buy a CD, you pay between £3 and £10 for their album (seriously you can get second hand CD's for even relatively new stuff on Ebay for a couple of quid).
In that 6 months you've put away £60 to spend on music, but have spent less than £10, and you own the copies. Nobody can take them away.
Streaming = convenience, thats really all you gain. But if you intend on having your music long term, it ends up being a massive cost.
10 years of Spotify costs £1200. If all you've listened to in that 10 year period is roughly the same few thousand songs thats a heck of a price to pay for conveinence, especially when that £1200 could've been turned into £2663.57 by sticking it in a managed account.