As a regular user of NewPipe, I disagree that it's a "massive" pain point. NewPipe works very well almost all the time. Coincidentally today is maybe the third

As a regular user of NewPipe, I disagree that it's a "massive" pain point. NewPipe works very well almost all the time. Coincidentally today is maybe the third time I've went to watch something and it's been broken. It's annoying yes, but soooo much less annoying that constant ads. It's a minor pain point that is easily solved by temporarily switching back to regular youtube.. by the time I've seen a few ads I'm more annoyed at the regular experience and NewPipe probably has a fix out by then anyway.