I can see how it might feel like that but considering it’s being worked on either way, if we didn’t suggest trying Lite out as an option then it becomes less useful than people seem to make it out to be.
I tried to explain more of how Lite is being used right now here which is a different topic.
Also as for changes being “forced” and no changes from the outcry, there’s still a fair few things we’re rolling out as beta (or in Lite, which is somewhat a beta experience) and we get feedback before pushing live. And I think there’s been at least a few changes made to compromise. eg. reducing colour changes in the rebranding, extra lists with freemium changes, regional pricing. And with others, such as Lite or Streaming Scrobbler it’s all additional features that you choose to use or not, and generally has no effect on you otherwise. All while being separate to this particular issue of Android being behind as the Android dev time mostly separate to all those. If you have specific issues with other changes, I think those belong in a separate thread.