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YouTube Shorts make zero difference if one's pattern of usage of YouTube is to only watch YouTube videos linked from other sources rather than actually staying within YouTube and consuming one after the other the videos their algorithm puts in front of you.
Personally I've never really got into the whole thing of just staying in YouTube and watching those videos that YouTube suggests, maybe because YouTube tends to suggest stuff with alarmist titles ("You won't believe what we've just found out") and other such loudmouth bullshitter crap, and for me that stuff just screams "untrustworthy and superficial bullshit which won't teach me anything new with any depth" so for years it's been the case that when I end up in YouTube their algorithm quickly put me off from consuming what it suggests. At most when I do stay within the YouTube environment to watch multiple videos, I'm explicitly searching for specific stuff, generally more stuff from the same person of the last good video I watched.
Usually I get a lot better YouTube video "suggestions" from links in posts and comments here or even in Reddit (back when I frequented it) than from the YouTube algorithm.
You're aware you can build a list of subscriptions that you can use instead of relying on the algorithm?
I consume content at my speed and dislike any sort of push solutions because at least for me content pushed towards me makes me feel pressured to watch (because the pile of unwatched stuff grows if I don't keep up with it).
I'm a lot more comfortable to do what I can when I can than having an external something set the pace.
I suspect getting "stressed" by a growing pile of unwatched stuff is a personality quirk.