My god i cant find anything unless i type out an exact name of the video, recommendations under currently watched videos and just in general are the same no matter what. It feels like a lottery when you hope that youtube will bless you with content that you were searching for. Im aware that im ranting but i just cant with it anymore. All they had to do is just leave things how they were and not gut an algorithm that worked just fine before. I recently used bilibili and the contrast is painful. Like WHAT??? A related but not seen before video/thumbnail??? Under a video of the same nature??? What a brilliant idea!!!
try Invidious instances like yewtu.be, they might use a different search algorithm
As far as mobile clients go NewPipe still seems to be functioning properly. (It does much of what’s normally done on YouTube locally so that you don’t need an account for it to function.)