There is an honor system, you can pay for the fruit or steal it.
On youtube or spotify, you are paying in either subscriptions or watching ads to access the content, of which a % goes to the creators. That's the deal the hosts provide in exchange for hosting content & making other content easily discoverable, etc. That's what's violated by adblockers. It is taking something without paying, which is theft.
I am not making a moral judgement on those who use adblockers. But I am tired of the semantic games and pedantry that people pull out to justify theft. Just acknowledge that it's theft and move on!