WAN Show on YT ads are getting nuts

Before I get started, I want to preface this post with the statement that I agree with Linus when he talks about ads on videos - basically nothing is free, and your time is what pays for the content. I'm ok with watching some ads on YT because I'm not paying for premium, but it needs to be reasonable.

My experience lately has not been reasonable and I don't know if this is LTT or YT doing this.

Over the last couple of months, I have noticed that the frequency of ads on the WAN show vod has drastically increased. I typically work Friday nights and don't have the option to watch it live, so I watch(listen) on Saturday mornings while I'm cooking breakfast and cleaning up. Occasionally I don't get to it until later in the week, but I typically finish it all before the next show.

But the frequency ads has gone from a pre-roll and about 15 seconds of ads every 45 minutes to what I'm about to list off.

Format of the list is timestamp rounded up or down, with rough duration of the add - I didn't put a stop watch to the ads, but it's pretty obvious whats a 5 sec ad and whats a 30+ sec ad.

- pre-roll ad before show - 30-60sec (honestly wasn't paying attention yet)

- 00:13:00 - 30

- 00:21:00 - 30

- 00:38:00 - 60

- 00:46:00 - 30

- 00:51:00 - 10

- 01:00:00 - 20

- took a break and app was closed - 20 sec ad when re-opened

- 01:05:00 - 15

- 01:11:00 - 05

- 01:19:00 - 10

- 01:24:00 - 20

- 01:30:00 - 15

- 01:33:00 - 30

- 01:39:00 - 10

- took a break and app was closed - 20 sec ad when re-opened

- 01:43:00 - 30

- 01:49:00 - 05

- 01:54:00 - 05

- 01:59:00 - 10

- 02:03:00 - 10

- 02:08:00 - 05

- 02:14:00 - 05

- 02:18:00 - 05

- Still watching with around 30 minutes left.... meaning about 5 more ad breaks.

To sum it up - the time between ads is between 3 and 17minutes (the vast majority is about every 5min), and the average duration of the ads is about 20 seconds (admittedly skewed by the unskippable ads).
Or to say it a little more succinctly: there is around 20 seconds of ads every 5 minutes.

Has anyone else been experiencing the same thing or feel the same as me?

I'm not really interested in paying for YT or FP at the moment for various reasons, but this is just making me feel like not watching any more because I can't listen without constantly being interrupted.