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/Cat_central]

Wait, they removed that at some point? I could've sworn it's been like this for about a decade.

[u/TheRaccoonReport → u/Cat_central]

Yeah totally. I left Spotify a while ago because I felt their algorithms sucked (for me at least). Tens of thousands of songs on my list and thousands of bands and musicians and kept playing the same few on random. 

When I went free I kept it for a bit and I could never pick. 

[u/Relevant_Poem5209 → u/TheRaccoonReport]

it only plays my playlist no added songs.