Values and creator-side issues aside, YouTube is just awful to use in its natural state just from a user experience perspective. Way too many ads per minute of

Values and creator-side issues aside, YouTube is just awful to use in its natural state just from a user experience perspective. Way too many ads per minute of content watched, the ads are all extremely low quality and a lot of them are just outright scams these days. You can solve this to some degree (on some devices) using adblockers, but YouTube has been going out of its way over the past year making this as difficult as possible. And there are non-ad issues as well, eg. the algorithm absolutely sucks at discovering new content.