Huh. Recommendation system is based around how much addicted you are. Therefore clickbait videos, or reaction videos will have better recommendation than a normal video.
The second goal is to make you slightly more angry, so that it is more probable that you will engage with the video.
The third is that you will watch more advertisements the more you watch. It is not in the best interest of the algorithm to give you answer right away.
It also does not have to be a bad will of YouTube/Google. After all you train neural networks to have desired outcome. The goal is to capture users attention.
The second goal is to make you slightly more angry, so that it is more probable that you will engage with the video.
The third is that you will watch more advertisements the more you watch. It is not in the best interest of the algorithm to give you answer right away.
It also does not have to be a bad will of YouTube/Google. After all you train neural networks to have desired outcome. The goal is to capture users attention.