YouTube music unpaid experience

I switched from Spotify over to YouTube music because the unpaid experience has gotten worse and worse on Spotify and with the wrap of 2024 being ai I just left and I’ve enjoyed YouTube music however I do have some pros and cons

PROS: -there are sooo many less ads on YTM -I have actually started listening to artists that I wouldn’t have otherwise because of YTM -It’s really continent for me to click on one song and get similar songs that I like while eventually switching to new ones -unlimited skips - all of my artists are here and making a playlist and having those actual songs play and not something random is amazing

CONS: -dear Christ why cant i listen to music while my screen is off - i cant back out of the app and listen to music

To be honest those two cons are bad and questionable I feel if they got rid of these two cons they’d be a really good competitor to Spotify since there is so much stuff Spotify is doing to ruin the free experience

I know that there’ll be comments saying pay for it if I want the good stuff but some people cant do that atm (myself included) so I unfortunately cant do that