Then it was "hide shorts for X days" (I think 30?).
Now it is "show fewer shorts".
Like a relative commentor said -- a product manager on the "Shorts" team is doing a helluva job boosting their team's stats.
Lately the option to disable ambient lighting around video has been reseting to ON for me on every video I open.
I cant even formulate how I feel about that without breaking some rules somewhere