Especially in search results this is going to be huge. The home page on YT can be useful if you’re mindful of your clicks and steer the recommendation algorithm in a very specific direction. So there are pros and cons to this algorithm thing, so you might not want to disable it everywhere.

A few years ago I noticed that the videos on the right hand side were no longer relevant to what I was watching at the time. I found that change really annoying, so going back to the old days would be refreshing.