> The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new music to break out.

Compared to what though? Compared to Limeware/Kaazaa back in the day, or compared to buying records in a store?

Personally, I find it easier than ever to find brand new music, mostly because Spotify still surfaces new things with ease for me (and always have been, since I started using it in 2008), and platforms like Bandcamp makes it trivial to find new artists that basically started uploading music yesterday.