I think you are right.

We will be squeezed step by step. Sad but it's going to happen.

I am still not premium subscriber, but something weird has been happening to me, whenever I click on want to watch older videos like 6-7 yrs old, it loads slower, also on such type of video, I always get grammarly ads. If I guess correctly it happens for around 20 sec then I see skip button.

I'm still using chrome browser.