Goodreads: Pros and Cons

I was going to write quite a different post today, but I got sidetracked and went down an Internet rabbit hole, ending up on goodreads.com. And it occurred to me that after using Goodreads since about 2014, I have a number of opinions on it...both good and bad.

Pros

• Goodreads lets you track which books you've read when. This is by far my favorite feature of the website.  Especially when I'm reading a long series of books, I tend to forget which ones I've read. I can't remember whether or not I've read Carry On, Jeeves because I'm getting it confused with Thank you, Jeeves. Goodreads gives me a place to keep track of all that. 
• Goodreads lets you see what your friends are reading. This is very helpful when your friends have similar taste in books. I've discovered so many good books by seeing them on friends' Goodreads updates!
• Goodreads lets you review books easily.  There's a 5-star rating system for those who just want to give a quick impression of whether they liked or disliked the book. (Usually I fall into that category.) But you can also leave as detailed a review as you'd like. When I absolutely love a book and want all my friends to read it, or when I detest a book and want to warn everyone against it, I'm likely to take some time and write a review.
• Goodreads numbers books in order within a series. I hate reading books in a series out of order, so I like this feature a lot!
• Goodreads lets you set your own reading challenge. This is another one of those things that you could do on your own with pencil and paper, but Goodreads makes it really convenient and also tracks whether you're ahead of or behind schedule.

Cons

• Goodreads book recommendations are terrible. I don't know that I have ever read a book that Goodreads has recommended to me. None of them has ever been appealing enough for me to actually read. They say they base their recommendations off the books on people's "read" shelf; I don't know what algorithms and lists they're using to make these recommendations, but they're not working for me. The only way I find new books on Goodreads that I actually want to read is by looking at what my friends are reading.
• The Goodreads blog has an obvious leftist slant. I can't stand to read the Goodreads blog because it seems every other post is advertising books by third-and fourth-wave feminists. When it's not doing that, it's advertising books about gay marriage. 
•  Goodreads can distract people from actually reading books. If I turned all the time I spend on Goodreads into actual reading time, I would surely be farther along in my reading than I am now!

Do you use Goodreads? If so, what are your thoughts about it? Please let me know in the comments!