Did they seriously make playing songs without shuffle a premium feature?

Every time I try to play a certain song the "shuffle" button bounces up and down and nothing happens. I get that they want to make money, and hopefully some of it is going to the artists, but they can't pretend that the free version is remotely usable and the "premium" is somehow elite and special. Imagine if Netflix had a free version where it let you watch shows but the episodes were placed in random order with ads in between. No, there's normal, okay Netflix and there's not having Netflix. If they're going to fuck up the free version it might as well not exist.