I have no affiliation with Shorts Blocker, but I installed it a long time ago and immediately forgot that shorts existed. Worth whatever I paid for it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shorts-blocker-for-youtube/id6...
why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?
Paying for an app that is a single CSS filter is top notch Apple.