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The only thing worth a YouTube premium subscription is probably the higher bitrate formats if you download/archive all the videos you care about. Latest version of yt-dlp gives you access to those (except the highest audio quality format, I think it was 256kbps AAC), but this will probably be patched sooner rather than later.
And also the music streaming service you get alongside it, and seamless downloads on mobile, and background playback on mobile, and...
That's pretty much implied in my message with the 256 kbps AAC which I believe is what youtube music is using (format id 141).
Downloads and background playback on mobile is already possible,
Whatever I don't even care what you guys think anyway, I gave my opinion, you don't like it, that's fine.