YT premium starts at $20/month in Australia for a single person, that’s far more than most other streaming services and you still have to put up with advertising and clickbait from creators.
I never said it’s cheap. I said it’s useful for it being main source of media consumption for us (and I can add it’s a good value for how much we use it).
Good things don’t have to be cheap. Even more - very often they aren’t.