In what way? Getting "lost" on youtube just meant following your interests until it strayed far away from the original video. Jumping video to video was fairly similar to "surfing" the web by jumping hyperlink to hyperlink.

Now it feels like Youtube controls the tide towards some fixed direction outside of the user control, which is frankly really boring. It's almost like the opposite of TickTock if comparing to other platforms.

What could the argument against seeing more things, and thus more ads, possibly be?