As a user of YouTube from the very beginning, I see YT only going downhill. It used to be an awesome place where there was funny, honest and real content. The content nowadays is filled with self-obsessed people, click-bait titles and stupid pranks. Is it time for a new platform that will bring us back to the old good days? ('member')
You're conflating "content I like" with "content that people like". <i>A lot</i> of people watch those 'bad' videos. As hard as it might be to believe, they're content people watch. There's no reason for Youtube to change what they do - that's content that makes them a lot of money.<p>What there almost certainly is room for is a site (or sites) that curate videos in order to filter out the content you and people like you don't want to see. Essentially you'd pay (directly perhaps, or through some sort of affiliate scheme if Youtube offers one) for someone to trawl through the rubbish to find things that match your criteria. There'd be a lot of risk - Youtubers can limit playback of their videos to only on Youtube so content could vanish, and you'd be relying on Youtube for revenue, plus it'd be something Youtube themselves could quite easily introduce as a feature on their site. Still, there's almost certainly a market for it.
Honestly i dont even notice all that crap other than some youtubers i followed that complained about it. If you use YouTube to watch what you want to watch it is still just as amazing as it ever was.
IMHO: Don't click on the "trending" tab and everything is fine, at least once you subscribe to a few users so it has something to create suggestions off. There is a lot of annoying stuff, but also many many high-quality creators and the bad is easy to avoid.<p>An alternative could do things better, but I'd expect YouTube is still clearly good enough that it would have a hard time getting users.