I am a shitpost in human form: your mom loves me, mods fear me
I use ReVanced and love it. Works great, though you do need to do some fiddling to set it up. Once it’s installed, though, it’s just regular YouTube with all the bullshit stripped out. You can even remove features you don’t like, like the Shorts page or the Cast button. And it’s got patches for SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike.
It must be nice to be so naive and idealistic still, it’s cute. You go right ahead thinking that then, sport. :3