I never saw the point of subscribing. The home page will show you videos from channels you've watched whether or not you've subscribed.

It’s a good way of circumventing the algo feed.

Which naturally is why Google has been making it ever harder to actually use it

> I never saw the point of subscribing

Guessing you’ve never used it extensively? My home page and subscription feed contain similar themes but are definitely not the same thing

I want to see a chronological list of videos of channels I liked and subscribed to as my feed, not whatever garbage is on the home page.

Agreed, I have a few hundred subscriptions and now use PocketTube to manage them into categories but I should probably cull a lot of them. It's a shame as many channels make some great one-off videos and I subscribe for hoping for the next one but it seems like they never come.