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No, this is clearly a false equivalence.

You see the content you choose to click on. Should my premium membership mean that Youtube blocks me from viewing Superbowl commercials the day after? Or movie trailers? Premium is simply paying Youtube so that Youtube will not show you Youtube's ads.

That's not up to YouTube, that's what the creator is doing.

YouTube could stop it if they wanted.

The creators must specify the start and end timestamp of the ad (some do), so you would be allowed to skip it easily.

You can if you have Premium. If you start manually skipping forward, the UI gives you a ‘Jump ahead’ button that skips straight to the end of the segment (based on crowd-sourced data, it seems).

This is a silly criticism, but for the record the sponsorblock extension does a great job at skipping these.

So what? It's still paying to see less ads. If ads bother you, pay

>If ads bother you, pay

I have paid but I still see ads.

Stop playing dumb