Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.
Words are cheap. Google used to write “don’t be evil”. If they are a billionaire, they could easily afford to make this FOSS.