Try it. I've been using Youtube for a decade and its recommendations are a total crapshoot these days. TikTok figured out my preferences within 15 minutes just based on which videos I liked and watched, and it can change course extremely quickly if you get bored of a certain topic.
The total number of hours I spent Youtube must outnumber the total number of hours I spent on TikTok by at least 100:1.
That's interesting. YouTube's gotten me fairly pinned algorithm-wise over the past few years (I used to never use recommendations at all before that). But my Shorts recommendations seem to just be the regular recommendations, but Shorts versions of them. Sometimes as far as the same channels, or the same people in clips even if it's on a different channel.
I think youtube is deliberately not showing good recommendations to boost ad revenue
For me the normal video recommendations are awesome on Youtube, I regularly find very obscure super interesting stuff in my recommendations.
For shorts it is abysmal, I only get horrible recommendations there - no idea why it is so different.