No, it sounds more like you are being served your burrito with a cocktail, even though you are trying to quit cold turkey.
On another note, I find it highly offending that somebody tries to shove something down my throat, even though I explicitly refused it. No, I do not want shorts on the home screen, or anywhere else. Let me own my screen real estate, after all, this is supposed to be a premium service?
I mean I don’t like shorts either and I don’t like how YouTube is “shoving” them as you say, but how are you under the impression that just because you pay fifteen bucks a month you get full control over how the homepage looks? Your logic applies to every single pixel on their website.
Shorts are a feature of YouTube. You don’t have to use it or look at it, and it only shows up on the homepage or when you’re looking at other shorts. It’s really not unreasonable.
If you want to pay and not get shorts but still get good content just subscribe to nebula, it’s also fantastic value, just as YouTube is.
It sounds more like you’re unhappy to be getting 2 burritos and you’d rather get only 1 for the exact same price.
Just don’t watch the shorts. All they are is a line on the homepage. I ignore it.