Yes! I have Match because I started using iTunes when the songs had protection. I prefer to use a 3rd party app to play music because I have some hearing loss (veteran) and these apps allow me to equalize the frequencies to hear things better. Unfortunately, these 3rd party apps (using Boom) can't play the protected songs so I subscribed to Match to get unprotected versions. Also, these apps can't play from Apple Music, so that was a no-go.
I purposely opted for the larger storage when I upgraded my phone so that I could download my library but I'm not able to do that now.