Maybe I have my feed tuned really well or I subconsciously just ignore the slop, but these days I find that a lot of the time Shorts are more helpful than full length videos which, I guess for ad reasons, are so heavily padded out that it can be a chore to get to the meat of it. Also the little short "previews" of full length videos let me know if I should bother with the full length one or not.
There is definitely some slop there, but I've overall found it more useful than not.