I'm happy to pay for a YouTube subscription, but the shorts issue combined with abysmal performance of the youtube.com website means that I have to use FreeTube

I'm happy to pay for a YouTube subscription, but the shorts issue combined with abysmal performance of the youtube.com website means that I have to use FreeTube, which works and performs absolutely great. But this way my subscription money doesn't really get to the creators of the videos I watch. If there was a way to connect FreeTube or other pirate clients with your Premium account, then all problems would be solved for the benefit of everybody involved. But from what I've seen, the FreeTube makers do not have any interest in letting users log in to their YouTube accounts.