Wavlake is fine, IMO. They fill a need.

It's not that we don't like Wavlake, it's that Wavlake's code makes it so the Wavlake player can only play Wavlake music. If Wavlake's player played all RSS based music, I'd probably recommend most people use Wavlake. They give you a wallet and hosting and charge you 10% of your sats. Unless you're making $100 a month on your music, you'd pay less with a 10% cut than you would with a different hosting company charging a monthly fee. Because they don't play all RSS based music, they go against my values, but if that ever changes, I'll send more people to Wavlake.

Its like the custodial vs noncustodial lightning wallet debate. Do you run a full umbrel node? Or do you run zeus? Or are you using WoS. To make the analogy, musicsideproject solution is like setting up an umbrel node, fountain or podhome are like running zeus and wavlake is sorta like WoS I use all 3 of those node/wallet solutions. Just like I use wavlake sometimes. Like Derek says, it fills a need.