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In practice I don't know if I've ever had a relevant short come up when I was trying to find how to do a specific thing. Usually if I need help with something it's more complicated than a short would allow for. I have seen "How to" shorts for all kinds of stuff come across my feed though that were pretty good. So if one came up when I was looking for how to do something I would watch it. That quick, concise format is exactly what I want usually when I'm trying to figure out how to do something. It skips all the "Hi I'm xxxx, welcome to my channel, blah blah blah" shit that the longer videos have. My main point was that not all this content is worthless brainrot stuff. Regardless of if it's useful to you or me in particular someone else may find it valuable.
I agree that videos that take 15 minutes to explain something that could have been explained in 5 suck. A video explaining how to tie a bowline should be longer than a minute. However shorts with useful content are quite rare, maybe not even 1% of shorts content. Still there is useful information, thanks for pointing that out - I even found this useful knot
The biggest problem with shorts IMO is the presentation. You get force fed brain rot junk. Even when you klick on the links to specific videos like you and I provided you are taken to a stream of videos where the next videos are usually of the brain rot type.
Seeing how children are affected by this format/phenomenon and how the extremist right has used it for political gain I think it dangerous to leave it unregulated. I thinks it is possible to prevent the junk watching part without content-based restriction.