If you haven't already:

Disable Settings > Recommendations > Show your liked music from Youtube

Enable Settings > Data saving > Don't play music videos

That first one only appears in YT music. My regular YouTube still has my music playlists.

Thanks though. Maybe some day they'll put in some effort.

I liked Google Play Music when it first came out. But development was basically stopped and they replaced it with the crappy YT Music App. Unless they majorly change YouTube music I'll stay with Spotify.

Dev wasn't just stopped. The whole product was sunset and if you wanted to keep a semblance of what you had, you were forced to migrate to YouTube music. I saw the end of that crap rainbow and finally moved over to koel which has done just as much as I ever cared to use in Google music, but now I don't fear Google getting bored and killing the product in some future.

One big upside of having access to video in your music collection is all the independently-uploaded songs and song versions that have not officially found their way to streaming.

If your tastes are more eclectic this can be a really big thing actually -- the music streaming services are largely similar in what they do and don't have, which leaves out a LOT of stuff, and finally things vanish off of streaming all the time. Individually-uploaded youtube music-in-a-video on the other hand is astonishingly durable.

Totally agree about the UI though, and they also suck on royalty payouts -- only Spotify is worse.