After seeing this happen time and time again, it's kind of a wild decision to make. So many negative reviews I see these days are about performance issues.
You would think a little more time would be put into reaching at least some reasonable performance level.
Doesn't work for all services. Some services will, if unable to charge the card,send whatever amount to collections, and now they have to deal with that.
Someone in Las Vegas last month lost $10,000. For the last 7 years someone has religiously purchased lottery tickets, never winning. Was gambling good for them?
However you said _those_ weren't good, or least not unbiased enough. So what are the unbiased, or at least better about handling bias than those they posted.
The button with shuffle set to default is still there for me on playlist, and does indeed still shuffle the playlist. If it isn't for you its possibly a bug I would guess.
I think people are getting confused, and the title of the news reports aren't helping.
Spotify didn't take away the ability to shuffle on album pages, they just changed the "default". In their mobile app the large green bottom under the album cover and to the right used to play the album but would turn on shuffle, and it now just plays the album.
If you look at the now playing song, the shuffle button is still there.
You still can...
If you're that considered about 5 microseconds: Build your own Stratum 1 time server https://github.com/geerlingguy/time-pi
or just use ntppool https://www.ntppool.org/en/