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I had not thought of that before... but you know, YOU'RE RIGHT!
If you have a good ad-blocker... that lets you choose which webpage elements to block (ie: "html "div" and elements and other consistently named/labeled columns) it's possible to block the garbage.
That is a solution that helps to improve YOUR personal experience, but the "vibe" you mentioned earlier still persists elsewhere. I guess the crutch of low-quality click-baity stuff that youtube content providers "need" is also something that benefits aggregators and other websites where links are collected and organized.