That's truly unfair and must feel awful as an iPhone user. Fingers crossed that Apple makes this right in the long-term.

Every day I learn something new that Apple does that sucks.

They're an absolutely terrible company, and are actively ruining something I love which is general purpose computing with the user as owner. Fuck Apple.

iPhone users can still subscribe via the website, if they want to save a few $ a month afaik

its because apple is taking a cut that it costs more. If you don't want to pay it, subscribe on a platform like a normal web browser that doesn't force spotify to pay a cut to apple.