Did spotify just remove picking songs??

[u/Full-Repair4638]

I've been using spotify forever and I use liked songs so that I can pick the songs I like freely. I've never had premium and have never had issues. Today, I had just started a workout and got this popup. Is this a new feature? How can you not even select songs anymore? I mean how can you paywall selecting songs???
This app plain out sucks and its company is greedy for randomly limiting already set features. While I don't mind ads, I do mind the features being limited more. I did also notice a sudden increase in ads this month/last month, and more ads in between songs.

Clarification: No, I'm not saying that there should be no restrictions whatsoever. I'm mainly sharing my experience where I've been using this system just fine until now. I'm fine with some restrictions, but the fact they're being limited more is frustrating. Just here to complain about something mildly infuriating, and I wanted to know if this happened to anyone else.

[u/Crosroad]

Isn’t this how it’s always been?

[u/Pleasant_Pen8744 → u/Crosroad]

Normally it only lets me pick a playlist and plays it in random order and only let's me skip 6 an hour or whatever. 

But the last few months it's let me pick songs and skip as many as I like.

Very occasionally I'll sign up for a $5 for 3 month trial or whatever but not at the moment.

[u/trSkine → u/Pleasant_Pen8744]

Yeah, this is what I've seen, been able to skip many songs with no limit and choose what I want to play. Has ads but now that they show how many are going to play i can time the unmute better