If it wasn't bad enough that there are unskippable ads, or that talking heads are yapping about things that don't matter, remember you are also paying for all the data usage.
No more are the days of fun new interesting videos, it all seems to be clickbait. Reacting and rambling, ranting and rage baiting. Endless madness, really.
I have unsubscribed from so many YouTube Channels, twenty years worth, but now it is possible to scroll to the bottom of the list. Yet my feed is still horribly polluted with the algorithm, endless nonsense. I wish there was a custom tags feature, instead of the suggested.
What I think helps is searching a dozen or more times for things you do want, and it slowly changes the feed. Facebook is another nightmare, a Mashup of YouTube shorts, instagram reels, and stories.