Try ReVanced it doesn’t have the shorts button, and you can remove shorts from your home feed.
The biggest problem is that average people are used to the tech big companies provide, and lazy so that they won’t move to overall better alternatives. This means the companies don’t care about consequences of their actions, because there is NONE. Looking at it from the company’s perspective, why not make more money from people that won’t leave the site anyways?
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It’s a white child, don’t you see? /s