I love it and yes, sometimes youtube makes a breaking change that any dev needs to find a work around for.

I use freetube on both because I can manage subscriptions better on it, and export to newpipe or freetube desktop easily. Freetube also includes sponsor block which is great.

I also keep newpipe on my phone as a backup since sometimes it works when freetube doesn’t. I auto-update freetube from fdriod but let obtainum auto-update newpipe straight from their git repo so I know I got a good chance if having at least one working app.

I haven’t tried pipepipe, it’s been a long time since I watched a billibilli vid. (BGM!!!)