Your last point rings true. What’s the solution here? Prevent companies from using engagement as a metric? Do you want to be recommended random 13-views videos

Your last point rings true. What’s the solution here? Prevent companies from using engagement as a metric? Do you want to be recommended random 13-views videos on YouTube? Because that’s what you get. I don’t know if I’d like to lose good recommendation algorithms because of bad apples. However I don’t like bad apples either, they rot the whole batch.