Google just wants you to submit to their authority and do things the way they want.
Invidious and Piped are great alternative front ends; no ads, no tracking, no algorithm, no stupid throttling.
Piped.video is the main Piped instance, and I’ve got Invidious running at ourtube.roguewave.observer
I love going back and replaying Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy on my PS2; awesome memories there. I really want to try out the OpenGOAL project