yes. The YouTube results are horrendous. I get a mix of things unrelated to my search that YouTube wants me to look at and a mix of related things and what feel

yes. The YouTube results are horrendous. I get a mix of things unrelated to my search that YouTube wants me to look at and a mix of related things and what feels like a never ending loop through some other material. Older videos can be very hard to find at times. I sometimes use a regular search engine to try to get to it. This probably isn't because of bad technology though, although that is possible. I suspect it is part of a revenue maximizing strategy, like you implied about them not valuing user time, to get users to focus on viral content to drive engagement (addiction) and highly monetized content. But it could be because of poor machine learning models I just suspect it's a new type of dark pattern.