I gave up on cassettes tapes 20+ years ago. CDs are cheap, and it is easy to make a full quality "mix-tape" on CD. I finally gave up on that, and put everything I own on a thumb drive, and put that on random. Play. Done.
I can skip a track in 1/2 second.
I have gone away from tapes, and am not missing the cassettes anymore than I miss 8 tracks.