You don't think content creators deserve to get paid?
Also, like I said, the content creator can opt out of ads like these but they don't want to. It's not YouTube you should be griping at, it's the content creators who enable YouTube.
On xda there is An app with no ads and can listen to videos with screen of like YouTube red. It's called vanced
We haven't find yet, the old smart youtube version didn't apply no ad mode.
Smart YouTube
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartYouTubeTV/releases/download/6.14.71/SmartYouTubeTV_Orig_v6.14.71_r.apk