Yeah, this is why I turn more and more to alternative front-ends like Invidious for YouTube, scribe.rip for Medium, teddit for Reddit, and so on. On that note, I'm actually starting to feel like online services should be required to allow (or be forbidden from explicitly blocking) alternative front-ends. I should be allowed to interface with APIs with whatever client I want, and I am beginning to think that should be a right. Currently people using software and online services are basically completely at the mercy of software vendors who have basically zero motivation to respect the user. I'm not really willing to subject myself to very much BS on the web anymore and without these alternative front-ends I'd just completely opt out of the respective services.
Oh FWIW my personal site is static files built with Hugo SSG, and a minimum of JS. I don't think I will ever use a server-side technology for my personal site again. I do think a growing number of users are "seeing the light" in this regard.