One of the big (for me) issues with the old, native client was accessibility, or the complete lack of it.
As a screen reader user, I couldn't use Spotify at all before the Chromium client was released, first in beta and then in stable.
Spotify's desktop accessibility was... passable, but far from great. It improved massively with the most recent UI redesign, which is almost universally hated by sighted folks.
This is a pattern I see pretty often, Reddit is another great example. Old Reddit is almost unusable to me, the new one is a massive improvement.
As a screen reader user, I couldn't use Spotify at all before the Chromium client was released, first in beta and then in stable.
Spotify's desktop accessibility was... passable, but far from great. It improved massively with the most recent UI redesign, which is almost universally hated by sighted folks.
This is a pattern I see pretty often, Reddit is another great example. Old Reddit is almost unusable to me, the new one is a massive improvement.