I've found myself using the browser version of apps (as terrible as they are) in replace of deleted apps. I'm very used to the Chrome -> search bar -> "y" -> "youtube.com" series of taps now.
Same here. My solution was to use the Brave browser and setup custom filters to block the doomscrolling part of the website. I did it with Reddit and youtube, so now no video is shown in the homepage of Youtube, and no list of posts shown in Reddit.
Still, I can use the search bar of youtube, and I can access single Reddit post (from a google search for example).
If you want to break the habit of going somewhere through the address bar, edit your /etc/hosts file so that address points back to localhost.
I did this at work before I lost my sudo access and if I get a new computer I will file a help desk ticket to have them do it again.