Product quality vs best marketed - the two are not synonymous.
Plus, $10/mo
for life isn't a good deal for music, since the point of leasing/subscribing is that when you don't pay you don't get to continue to use, which becomes a big issue the moment you've spent as much as or more than the for-purchase alternative and innovation becomes a lesser issue to these companies if they can produce vendor lock-in (the biggest source of laziness, not the millennials they blame). But it's great if one limits local storage space, and the cell phone companies with expensive limited bandwidth quotas would appreciate these collusive moves, too...