Wow, so you're fine with hurting creators who just happen to be drowning in a competitive marketplace?

People who don't say those words exist, but you won't find them very easily. There's a reason for that.

What do I owe them?

Nagging and soliciting subs and likes is fucking annoying. If you want me to like a video, make a good video and stop nagging.

If I dislike those naggers enough, maybe Google's stupid artificial non-intelligence will eventually learn to recommend only videos from non-naggers. I try, even though I don't have much faith in Google's algorithms.

This is nothing to do with "Google's algorithms". The simple fact is, people do not subscribe without being prompted to. The reason all the top YT'ers are annoying about it, is precisely why they are successful. Things work like that in the real world, too.

Yes, I know exactly why these annoying naggers are being annoying. I don't like it.

And here I'm telling that maybe people should stop listening to annoying naggers and just dislike & close the tab, maybe block the channel too if it keeps coming up in recommends.

Btw, it is not clear whether a dislike drowns the content – people believe it’s inverse, and you’re helping. Best you can do to counteract is closing a tab.