I think it's worse for me, based on the current set. The official trending page has a few videos that I'd like to watch, including two from my subscriptions. But the fairtrending page has nothing I am interested in.

Yes, here in my location too. Pretty much the same complete trash

Looks like AI recommendations did have a point all along lol

Though it seems to be a different list of clickbaity garbage from https://m.youtube.com/feed/trending which is sort of interesting.