You're right, I'm not sure where I heard the comparison with the IVth recently but I didn't know about the 2 days one damn. A bit of an exaggeration, but we're clearly in a similar spot with a government that's completely incapable of doing anything. Even if the fascists get in there and there's a liberal-fash alliance, the rot and contradictions are here to stay, it's not gonna magically make it functional.
probably what happened to me as well, i remember a large part of my itunes being gone. I switched to downloading and managing my library manually on musicbee and haven't stopped, even after switching to linux i still run musicbee through wine.
Given the horrible impact of spotify on the industry and the shady shit going on, i don't regret it, as much as i feel like a weird hermit sometimes for not using spotify or any other streaming service. Nobody can take my music away, and I can use it however i want.