Many things can cause you to go to same place. Lack of meaningful choice, not being able to afford anything better, etc. But YT premium on itself is bad value.

Many things can cause you to go to same place. Lack of meaningful choice, not being able to afford anything better, etc. But YT premium on itself is bad value. I can replicate most of its value with... An ad blocker. Why should I pay Google to solve problems it creates for me? That's just incentives them making more problems. Maybe they will add a solve a captcha every 5 min if not on Premium. And lastly YT isn't above ruining it as well (see premium ads). History (see cable) teaches us, ads on premium is a matter of time.