Seems like Piped and Invidious are both on their last legs. Public instances on both services are pretty iffy, they go down fairly often now. Freetube works well on desktop but no real way to sync subscriptions and watch history to a phone. Self-hosting Piped/Invidious might be the solution but I don’t know if it’s worth the upkeep when YouTube is actively fighting against it.
Didn’t know that mpv can do that. Will use that instead of browser.
It can play individual videos or playlists with the help of
yt-dlporyoutube-dl(I think the former is more active than the latter).