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How do you find new music to listen to?
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Interestingly, I feel like I've found more "new" music using Spotify's Release Radar playlist instead of their Discover Weekly playlist. I'll typically (and aggressively) mark things as like/don't like in those playlists and add what I like to my own "Testing" playlist to see what sticks to me. Release Radar tends to have more likes than Discover Weekly does, despite what the two are named, and it's providing new artists on top of existing ones I'm already a fan of.
That's usually good enough for me, though the occasional time I'm listening to the radio or a song comes on over the speakers when I'm out and about gets a quick Shazam from me to know what it was.
To add on to that. Their enhance playlists or similar songs found at the bottom of your playlist page can be really relevant and I've learned about a ton of new artists that way.
Yes, that has helped out a lot too. It may not work for OP since they're feeling like these systems are creating a genre just for you, but this works if you're not looking to jump to something too different from what you already enjoy.