I don't watch shorts because of the type of content it encourages - short clickbait content for the attention deficit.
I want long form, well researched, well put together content. These types of content takes a long time to produce, unfortunately, and the youtube algorithm doesn't favour it.
These types of content takes a long time to produce
Unless they're AI slop, of course. Between shorts and AI slop, worthwhile content on YouTube will soon become almost impossible to find...