You can like something and want it to be better. In the lack of actual alternatives the vitriol against YouTube’s anti-user decisions makes a lot of sense. I think you’re just being contrarian.
Youtube is one of those things you can't avoid in practice. So if you don't like it what do you do? do you just miss out on most existing video content?
I stopped paying when they increased the price, for less functionality.
Still paying membership for a couple of youtubers I wanted to support (that don't have patreon, or ko-fi, or stuff like that), but gonna keep using adblocker for as long as I can, since YouTube adds are awful.