Well, you can't pay for Youtube. You can pay for a bundle of some mostly unrelated products that's named Youtube Premium, or you can live with an insanely degraded product experience on Youtube, but you can't pay for Youtube.
But it sure seems that you're trying to rationalize your unwillingness to pay for something and it does sound very entitled.
But no one is forcing you to use YouTube, it's just way more accessible for any content creator that can't spend weeks in getting a commercial license for music and such.
But I have good news for you. Many creators have Patreons, that serves video.
I prefer to subscribe and watch on Nebula to support them more... but YouTube has such a good mix of content that isn't on Nebula that I find myself using it as a hub regardless.
In-video promotions are ads. You cannot pay to block them.
I will not pay for content twice or more.
That literally means that unless Google spins off YouTube, you will screw the creators on YouTube.
What do you mean "unrelated"?
For the price of your Spotify subscription, you get an YouTube Music and ad-free YouTube. Seems like a good value prop. I'm a subscriber.
Okay, we've established you don't know what unrelated means.
YouTube with no ads is $12 a month. How can it be more clear?
>I, nor anybody have I talked to want a Youtube Music subscription or yet another podcast app.
I'm sure some of these people happily subscribe to Spotify, and can't spot a good deal staring them in the face.
I actually bumped my YT plan to family and put my parents on it. They didn't know about ad free YT, now they don't know how they went without it.
You can still think it's a good deal though.
It could maybe even be considered anti-competitive to bundle Youtube and Youtube Music as the only option.