Idk, Spotify is fine. I'm convinced people only hate on it because it's popular. My only real problem with it is that dealing with the queue can be a bit annoying, but for the convenience of not having to download music and having playlists sync across devices I won't complain. Tidal's UI is basically the same and people love that because of its placebo "audio quality"

Basically nobody can in blind tests assuming the MP3 is of high quality itself

Sacrifice what quality? Not even discernable if you don't placebo yourself