Offline mode on spotify is local media with extra steps.
It’s really less steps. I don’t have to do anything other than click a single button once.
Pirated music gets more convenient than what you paid for.
It really doesn’t. I like piracy, and I have a Plex server with around 6 TB of media but pirating music on a large scale is just annoying as fuck and my PC would have to be on all the time for my phone to access all my Music. My phone obviously can’t fit 5000+ songs.
I even have Radarr, Sonarr, and Bazarr; and I am of a few private trackers. So I am not unfamiliar with piracy.