You know what else compensates the creators, probably more? An ad

ads are not an issue tho, yooooooou can skip most of then after 5 sec. And certain shows rarely have ads for me. Vlad tv hardly ever do i get an ad. Anyways, what you get with premium, just no ads and the music stuff?
Platforms evolve young blood, everyone was on pandora at one point, then spotify came thru, tidal came on afterwards. Then what?
Pandora has a feature called hey pandora, works like hey siri/ ok Google. Looks exactly like iPhone siri when it talks. Tell it what you want, it plays instantly. I was asking for random songs like mobb deep and kool g rap.... instantaneously anything i asked came up. Then when it was finished it played random music from the same genre/era and it was doing the damn thing. Try it out, should be free. I don't think i have a premium account but I'm not entirely sure
Also, Google play is free if you have Amazon prime but it is my least favorite to use...
Never had a problem watching what i wanted, free. I'll give an example...
shyt like this had existed since forever. I got a site that is identical to Netflix in look, has more content, even picks up where you left off at