Yeah I've used TIDAL for 8 years now and I've loved it. The fact that they pay artists better and even have a system for paying the artist you listened to the most each month is pretty neat.
Tidal is using a revenue share model, just like Spotify. A higher per-steam payout just means users on Tidal are listening to less music than Spotify users.
Well, what I found is that 'music quality' is not the same as how compressed a song is. Tidal tends to have different mastered versions of album's that do give a different listening experience.