Whenever I click a Short, I am extremely annoyed. The scroll wheel is repurposed to skip the video, rather than the typical desktop interaction of going to the description and comments. When that happens, I close the tab and visit some place other than YouTube.
By the time the parent company realises there's no money to be made hosting endless amounts of stupid, repetitive and crappy content aimed at attention-deficient children, bonuses would've been paid and promotions would've been offered - the latter is what drives this crap, not necessarily some hypothetical bottom-line impact that's hard to measure and easy to excuse away should it not pan out.
Yet when you click into one and scroll through them, instead of showing you the other shorts on the recommended list, it shows you general trending shorts.
Always thought that was weird. In other words you have to click one, then navigate back and click into each other recommendation.
Why do you keep clicking it?
By design, it's hard to avoid them entirely.
So in those cases you want them to be there?