I'm on it daily. A ton of hours between watching videos and enjoying the music catalogue. It's definitely the only reason I don't mind paying premium. No complaints.
Absolutely not our problem. They can come up with other business models. Maybe they can resurrect one of the hundreds of projects/business models from them at https://killedbygoogle.com/ and run with that
oh, wait, i forgot about all the sharecare non-pirate bears that just upload good stuff for the careshare... you know, that other 3/12 of the catalogue...
The few shorts I do watch are only from my subs. After I watched the short, I exit and don't enter the doom scroll.
But I agree that thwy are trying harder then when tgey were introduced.