Honestly I think YouTube music is finally at parity with Google music. I'd prefer some of the fluff to go away (e.g. the comments, samples, & podcasts) but overall it's gotten much better.
I think you know the answer to that. That was a pretty spectacular feature that I never thought was going to last. Regardless of branding. Hopefully you uploaded your music and transferred it over to YouTube music before the deadline.
It is not an intuitive app to navigate. I would 100% rather have Google music but YouTube music isn't as horrible as it used to be. That's not a ringing endorsement but I'm glad it isn't still a dumpster fire
You must not know many Android users then. Almost all the android users I know (like 90% of them) use spotify. And I think all the apple users I know use it.
The desktop apps suck but on mobile it’s the best music streaming service there is, imo. It has a few features I‘d like it to add but other services don’t have some key features that are much more important to me