I do this as well. My experience was that after doing it for long enough, none of the videos being recommended were of any interest to me. This made me realize

I do this as well. My experience was that after doing it for long enough, none of the videos being recommended were of any interest to me. This made me realize that roughly 90% of my YouTube usage was viewing content I didn't actually care about. I concur with others that using browser extensions that get rid of recommendations and only show the search bar is the healthiest way to use YouTube, at least for me. I get some FOMO when doing this, but I've found that reiterating to myself that my natural inquisitiveness should be enough to still find interesting content on the platform when I want to seek it out.