They made a bunch of Gimlet Media podcasts exclusive to Spotify soon after they bought them, it was irritating at the time but for me at least it was pretty easy to just find some other podcasts to replace them with.
And I suppose more famously they did make Joe Rogan exclusive to Spotify as well, and he's probably the biggest name in podcasting
In regards to gnome-terminal, you can try gnome-console instead which correctly supports kinetic scrolling. It's missing a lot of the settings that gnome-terminal has, so it may not meet your needs, but if you just want a simple terminal emulator it works well.
I switched to FLauncher. It's very basic but I think that's what most of us are looking for. It's built with Flutter and it's open source: https://gitlab.com/etienn01/flauncher
And I suppose more famously they did make Joe Rogan exclusive to Spotify as well, and he's probably the biggest name in podcasting