You're probably the only person I've heard from that has said that. I think YTM is marginally worse in most respects. I'll keep using it because I think spotify is also lacking and getting ad-free YouTube (which I'm grandfathered into) is a pretty good feature.
A very strange thing I found is that, when you migrate your data from GPM to YTM, Google seems to "forget" all of its algorithmically curated data based on likes and play history. It's taking me a long time to "train" YTM back to where GPM was before the migration.
All of this is really disruptive to users though, and it's why I have taken to self-hosting the music I really care about via Jellyfin.
If I wanted to watch music videos I'd open YouTube. I can't remotely recommend this to anyone, let alone my father.