Trying YouTube premium now and I would probably continue to pay after this trial period if it wasn’t for the terrible audio quality.
Some things sound ok, while others are encoded with some painful loss of fidelity. It is like it is 1999 again and you try to encode MP3 at 112 kbit/s to squeeze a full album into your 64 MB player, that bad.
I read somewhere that it uses Youtube as the source material and reencodes that instead of sourcing it properly as in Google Music.
And how do you expect content creators to get paid? I am for adblockers, but I also pay for such subscriptions because I want to support the creators and news industry.
I could care less about giving YouTube a cut of creator revenue.
Contextual/integrated advertising is something many creators already do - in a lot of cases it's because they have no choice (their videos have been demonetized for etc).
Mind you, there are ways to get around that too, but I don't mind. After all, as you say, they need to get paid.
Hoppy.network, so I can give the Raspberry Pi running in my closet a real IPv4 address.
Monthly donations to Ardour.org, my favorite DAW.