I don't mind the ads as much as all the mandatory meta-baiting. Not the MB itself, but the mechanisms behind it.

Even if you produce interesting videos, you still must MB to get the likes, to stay relevant to the algorithm, to capture a bigger share of the limited resource that is human attention.

The creators are fighting each other for land, our eyeballs are the crops, meanwhile the landlord takes most of the profits.

There is much data to support that asking for likes and subs actually increases likes and subs.