The fate of classical music certainly depends on where you live, but it's not been doing very well in the US for a while. Public Radio (which used to be most people's exposure to classical music) has been playing less and less of it over the past couple of decades, the death of music stores means it's not that easy to browse recordings, and the new streaming services are much more pop music focused. You can still be a classical music fan but it takes work.
I think Spotify's selection of classical music is actually pretty good. Much better than any local music store where I live has ever had in my memory. (City of 400k people in NZ.)
We still have Radio NZ: Classical along with Radio NZ: National. This is the benefit of public service broadcasters, you know.
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