Can I set the YouTube app to open directly to my list of subscriptions rather than the YouTube home page?
Can I hide the thumbnails from all videos on the YouTube app?
Can I skip annoying sponsored segments? (I usually end up blocking the entire channel which has annoying sposnored segments on my browser with BlockTube)
Can I turn off comments?
Can I turn off suggestions for videos to watch?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, I don't wanna use the official YouTube app, even if there are no ads after paying for Premium.
...on the other side we have something we have to pay to skip those ads (only the youtube ones, not the in-video ones), but youtube and google still tracks us, still shows us ads on other sites (eg. slow cooker ads, after watching clow cooker reviews on youtube...
...and on the "alternative" side, we have a free solution, that stops all the youtube ads, skips all the in-video ads, and blocks all the ads on other sites, makes our internet faster, makes our batteries last longer, and pay less when we have limited data plans.
The "adaptation" you're calling for is what exactly? YouTube hosting and serving video content as a charity?
If they work out how to stop me from blocking ads, I won't watch.
It's that simple.
When you just screech about YouTube being unnacceptable without actually explaining your issues in detail it just sounds to me like you want google to host a (very expensive for them) video sharing service without monetizing it at all, which is obviously an unrealistic demand (also, you should promote peertube - p2p seems like the way to make this happen).
Go the way of Digg or disappear entirely, because if you need ads to survive, then you don't have a very good website. The competitors like Rumble or BitChute or Odysee or PeerTube will fill in the gaps.
I sometimes think we get what we deserve.