buggy, infrequent updates, lack of content, an ideological hive mind...is anyone really surprised?

And again, how did the company make the money to pay them that salary? Way to deliberately misunderstand my comment.

"Enough suckers ahead of me have paid for the game, now it's morally right for me to pirate it!" 🤡

And Lemmy isn't an echo chamber? Try posting any conservative opinions around here and see how many downvotes you get.

Yes. They said so in their announcement of the device's general availability.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2022-02-22/car-thing-from-spotify-is-now-officially-available-in-the-u-s/

And? Their site clearly states that a premium subscription is required.

Not having America around to keep Russia and China in check sounds great for humanity 👍