That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard of either before. Thanks!

Every time I need to cross a seemingly empty street, suddenly cars appear. I can’t help but imagine it’s a render distance issue.

I’ve heard of people using a combination of a scrobbler and listenbrainz to combine listening history and get new recommendations

The project owner in open source projects still ultimately get to decide if and when any changes are accepted and implemented, so they would still retain creative control.