One of the issues of YouTube is there is "discovery" vs "what I want to watch". https://www.youtube.com is ok for discovery and pulls a lot of the "this is what I've subscribed to" in there too. Doing a subscribe to channels that give you consistent media that you want to watch and then going to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions as the "this is where I want to be when on YouTube" gives a completely different experience.
(I'm also quite free with the "don't recommend this channel to me" option if something disappoints me)
(I'm also quite free with the "don't recommend this channel to me" option if something disappoints me)