[PaulDavisThe1st]

Personally, I found switching to liferea (an RSS reader) to track the YT channels I cared about, and generally avoiding using recommendations was a path to satisfaction. I spend very little time scrolling through YT now. Most of the time, it's liferea that tells me a new video is out that I almost certainly want to see. However, the recommendation engine works quite well for me, and so when watching the video I did actually want to see, I will see the right-side suggestions list and every so often, there's something good/valuable there).