Hi,
Just read the article. Not the best one if you’re looking for objectivity IMHO… the author got a bad experience and just give a feedback. Interesting but not sufficient… (and that’s why you’re here 
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Maybe off topic, but there’s lot of thoughts in the article about ecoresponsability but the author seems to massively use streaming services, online services, google apps… which are not known, as far as I know, to be so much green. I can’t join the dots here…
Faitphone is, from my point of view, the best choice if you are trying to be ethical and in control of your data usage… You can, for a start, easily install Fairphone Open OS or Lineage OS to get better control.
Back to the topic : I agree with @ElKrasso, I don’t use spotify but all the rest just works as expected! I’m using FairPhone Open OS.
Just another opinion, hope it helps.