Almost every month I learn about a new version or fork of NewPipe. It's hard to keep up.
Discussion
Why forks? Original NewPipe is decent?
I use Tubular that replace NewPipeXsponsor block which was a fork of NewPipe which add the skiping of sponsor content within the video itself. PipePipe looks like very similar.
But yes NewPipe is already good in most cases.
Yep, Google/Youtube is working hard to fuck adblockers and unofficial clients.
And devs have to keep to every change that brokes the normal functioning of the apps.