yes video quality has dropped, video suggestion algorithms have become a weird uroboric/echo chamber even if you have dozens of subscriptions, and the YouTube shorts reel refuses to be trained (no matter what I do, if I dislike every video I don't want to see and like all the ones I do want to see and log off if it suggests too many bad videos in a row, it still feeds me an endless loop of unwanted brain rot after 5 or 6 scrolls). I hate YouTube.

At the same time, they've found a good way around the ad block situation which is to promote ads as thumbnails on your "for you" video main page. I don't know why they didn't just do that in the first place, because honestly I don't mind that. It's when they constantly interrupt my videos ever freaking minute and a half that I start to get pissed.