I don't disagree, but they really are a different beast. Have you used the shorts feature? It's 95% brainrot. Where as you can use youtube intelligently to watch interesting things if you choose to. Obviously you could use regular youtube and watch brainrot/slop too, but there is no way to use shorts to watch good content.
Yeah the feeds are totally different. My main youtube front page shows electronics projects, science/educational content, world news, etc. While the shorts feed is all AI slop and random cuts from movies with weird editing added or some guy on half the screen staring at the camera.
