So I’ll shuffle my playlist and get this or like a 10 minute music video where half of it is just people talking.
It doesn't sync your liked YouTube videos unless they're tagged as music, to be fair... But yeah, I mean, that's a thing. I've only ever liked music videos myself for some 10+ years, so that doesn't really matter to me much.
You're right tho, if you want to start a "liked music" playlist you should just do that instead of using the default liked videos playlist. If someone is coming over from Spotify, I guess that wouldn't be much of a problem? Not sure, tbh.
Are things bad because they're illegal? Piracy being illegal is basically irrelevant, since you're not gonna get fucked for doing it; the question is if it's bad. Just wanted to point this out, sorry about the tangent!
YouTube Music, IMO. You have basically every song you'll ever want, and then some. YT Music Premium does also pay artists, I believe, since you're interested in paying.
How deep in the delusion-verse are they, indeed...