The way YouTube forces shorts on users who likes long form content is really frustrating. uBlock filters are great but doesn’t solve the fundamental issue here. There should be a way to opt out of YouTube shorts.
All because either they purposefully wanted to force us to do that (view count boosting I guess, or it's more likely to be remembered?) or some google exec got Shorts barely done enough to show off at a board meeting and say "done, made something that competes against reels!" and then ran off to work on something else to try and boost their stature in the company.