The suggested feature is nice but i'm sure they optimize for view time and whatever serves the most valuable ads. This may coincide with what you actually like but this is just another example of google making you the product.

I went from an addon to remove everything but the video I wanted to watch (to remove distractions) to years of going through various proxies, to now (mostly because of invidious crackdown) using yt-dlp to just download what i came for and stop trying to steal my attention.

I can't believe that in freaking 2024 they can still be this big and basically the only useful video site around.