Check out the Unhook extension (available in various browsers), it can turn YT into search box + video player.

> The YouTube home screen is a total wasteland. It's a disaster. It's a > horrific attention suck that's done enormous damage to humanity's > collective attention span. Recommendations are barely any better - > sometimes they're loosely connected to the video you just watched, > but other times it's just more weird addicting YouTube slop.

I rarely ever open anything else but https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions