Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.
This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.
This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.
There is a few tampermonkey (extension) scripts that disable the message. This is the one I use;
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/478457-youtube-anti-anti-adblock