I suspect YouTube is weighting incorrectly. I miss Human Curation of content. I am looking for other sources. It's annoying, more often than joyful, to use Yo

I suspect YouTube is weighting incorrectly. I miss Human Curation of content. I am looking for other sources. It's annoying, more often than joyful, to use YouTube for me. It feels like a half-baked project. I miss Human Curation. My story: paying long-term YT user (no ads), watched many multi-hour "calm stream / quiet cafe" videos, Recommended list became 75% polluted w/these and un-cleanable regardless of many "Don't Like" actions by me, nuked history, still seeing some.