I booted Alexa to the curb once and for all a few months back. At work now, I just hook my phone directly to my JBL LSR305 speakers and it does a good job standing in for hi-fi. I don't use the phone for much else so it has helped adding some usefulness to the otherwise ball and chain thing that it has become in my life.
I have been streaming on PC since it ever became available on the internet, I just didn't realize it was what I was doing. I mostly selected songs and albums on youtube, Napster etc. In the last 10 years or so, I have created stations instead of playlists. My mood changes too much to abide by playlists. Repetitiveness and advertisements, was what killed FM radio for me. I had done away with it and only listened to music at home via vinyl or CD.
I instead, create a station on Pandora based on an artist I am interested in and set to "discovery" mode. Some can go seemingly an entire day with very few repeats. I have discovered that there is a lot of good 'newer' music than I was giving credit for. The radio stations had me thinking millennial music was dreadful. Once I got away from that beaten path, and into some more, nearly underground (to me, at least) music, I discovered days weeks and months worth of new listening and even added some genres I never would have visited otherwise.
Still not a fan of modern pop (Adele, Post Malone, Taylor Swift etc.), and because that was what the 'fluffy' dude at work listens to on FM constantly, really just kept me in the classic rock playback loop at work. I didn't know I would like say. . .Indie music, but there is some good stuff there, along with reggae/dub stations based on more modern (even white guys beyond UB40 are doing it) artists. Streaming certainly has opened up a heap more of jazz, that I really didn't have time to dig into until I built my new main speakers around 2017.
Recently tried Qobuz, Spotify, Tidal and Roon again now that I have more streaming experience, and still didn't care for them. They try too hard to think for me and they are too far off, to the point of becoming annoying with all their trend bs. This has me just using Pandora for endless discovery, and scamazon for when I want to listen to select albums. Scamazon's discovery works well enough, but is not as seamless as Pandora has been. Pandora will keep playing until I turn it off, while scamazons and others were cutting me off and making me do special tricks to work around their bandwidth saving ways. I use Pandora at night when I go to bed and at work. I don't really notice the differences in SQ between that and the others.
