I pay for Youtube Premium, because I'm a weirdo.
I don't find the ads on Youtube too bad in general; on the PC at least you can skip ads after a few seconds.
And as has been said, free content has to be paid for somehow.
But some of the videos themselves...
My God.
Take 20 mins to say what could be said in 2.
They could *really* do with some serious editing.
Oh, and how-to videos where the actual critical parts of the work is out of camera shot, out of focus, observed from a useless angle or obscured by hands etc.