YouTube fundamentally does not respect the time or attention of users - even if you pay for YouTube Premium.

The only way I can stomach YT at this point is with blocktube and unhook; I can disable parts of the interface, block channels and content individually or with regular expressions, and filter comments with regex - a necessity given how many scams are being run right now.

I dread the day they drop RSS feeds for channel updates.

https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

https://unhook.app/

Edit: also see how YT search gives you unrelated nonsense. User-hostile may as well be their mission statement at this point.