I still pay for it... but only barely. It's a sad shadow of GPM, which was much more to my liking.
If you want to avoid their awful YTMusic web UI there are options. There's a decent, standalone, GUI YTM application for KDE [0] which I've used (sadly it doesn't support logins, but if you just want a player it works well enough).
There's also a plugin for Mopidy [1] that lets you listen through your MPD / snapcast [2] server, but that's more fiddly.
If you want to avoid their awful YTMusic web UI there are options. There's a decent, standalone, GUI YTM application for KDE [0] which I've used (sadly it doesn't support logins, but if you just want a player it works well enough).
There's also a plugin for Mopidy [1] that lets you listen through your MPD / snapcast [2] server, but that's more fiddly.
[0] https://apps.kde.org/audiotube/
[1] https://github.com/OzymandiasTheGreat/mopidy-ytmusic
[2] https://github.com/badaix/snapcast