Sure, but what I'm kind of getting at is that I would like to pay money for the ad to not be there in the first place. What annoys me is that YouTube Premium only gets you halfway.

Yeah it is a difficult place for YouTube as they would need to enforce rules that say the video maker cannot have sponsored content/ads within the video and I can't see that going down well as I highly doubt YouTube would be in the position to pay similar to cover the ad placement loss.

From what I have heard, sponsorships are well worth for the creators. Usually bringing in at least the amount that YT otherwise gave them, and often more.