I’d rather they just set up shorts as a separate section and make it easily toggleable. Including those in search is fine… but the search should make it easy to switch back and forth between including those results along with regular content, only shorts, or only regular videos. Especially on desktop where you have the room for a more complex UI.

Short form content has a place, and I’d rather watch that shit on YouTube where I already have an account instead of having to go to Tik Tok or Instagram and deal with China or Facebook the times I do want to doom scroll it. There are some great short form only creators.