If you do want to watch one for whatever reason you can open it in the standard interface. The video IDs are neutral it's just the URL that determines which interface you get.

Actually I guess a browser extension to redirect to a fixed up URL would resolve the problem entirely.

Control Panel for YouTube [1] lets you remove most of the clutter from the Shorts player UI, or redirect Shorts to the normal player (using YouTube's internal navigation if on desktop, so no full page reload)

You'll have to disable hiding them first, as they're completly hidden by default

[1] https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube