> Google looks forward to bringing back those genres/subgenres, and even microgenres, once they've had a chance to improve them and make them more scalable around the world.

That is a comment from a top contributor in the product forum. Thread is here https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/play/i9meVy...

Wow, that thread is angrier than the Maps forum. Pretty impressive achievement on Google's part.

What's so bad about the maps forum?

Why not both? Maybe Sognza's playlists were a caching solution.

Occam's razor.

dlandis is suggesting a pretty over-complicated, anti-consumer reason as to why google started pushing curated lists.

Or you can buy into the incredibly simple "because google bought Sognza to compete with spotify's curated lists".