Youtube is also pretty boring though. I mean, there are ton of interesting content and quality content too, but the stuff that gets recommended, the "hype stuff" is full of false information, clickbait, tweaked reality to conform some narrative...
This is the only downside. You really need to curate good content.
I don't know about everyone else's experience but I find Youtube to be pretty good at finding interesting content, especially for music. Curation is necessary but it does work.

Works fine for me recommending interesting educational and edutainment content.

I'm quite aggressively removing videos I don't like from my watch history, or flag "don't recommend" channels I know won't be for me. If I'm not careful it'll recommend crap for a while.

Agree, their algorithm sucks, I wish I could have more freedom to customize it
Agree! So many great genuine creators, but the algo keeps pushing only clickbaity shit
Everyone was a genuine creator but was corrupted at some point. It will happen to your favorite creator too.
I have a friend that sends me lunatic fringe videos every day that youtube recommends. It's tiring