They are using automatic dubbing by default here in France! I was horrified the first time.

And God forbid you enable captions on the video or something - it'll disable itself every time an ad plays.

Or you use adblock

Yep agreed.
It's downright disgusting to browse youtube without premium or an adblocker.

Sadly I need premium simply because I am watching on an Android TV and I am not trusting third party clients with my google account.
Too much stuff is associated with it (monetary)

And then there is the occasional 30 minute to an hour infomercial that comes on obvious stuff people watch to go to sleep! I wanted someone softly talking about outer spacey things, not you're shitty product I give so much little of a fuck about that I didn't even look at what was being advertised. I hate you so much I will not even remember your name to give you free advertising by birding about you online!

I only pay them because I watch a stupid amount of YouTube. Hours a day, many more hours when not working.

If those ads come back while I'm paying though, the flag flies.

On broadcast TV, a 30 minute timeslot had only 23 minutes of actual content and 7 minutes of ads.

That's what we're heading back to. 20% of the watch time is ads.

I have premium through a page that makes family groups and you pay a lot less. From time to time there is an issue with the group and you spend like two days without premium until it is fixed.

During those periods YT is unwatchable and I skip using it until the issue is fixed