OP already answered that, but I'll rephrase.
JRE was widely available and free for download with any good podcast app, or via youtube. Presumably it would have kept going like this without Spotify's help. Instead they bought it out. now we have to use the (Closed source) spotify app, watch their ads, and pay their subscription fees, and the show is worse off with big corporate ads and censorship.
Arrested Development on the other hand was never freely available. (Other than over broadcast TV.) it was out of production, and before Netflix bought it, we weren't expecting another season. Now we get an unexpected new season of a good show, with no ads. Still on a closed source player, but it sorta always was on one.