If you quit YouTube then you also quit all the content on YouTube that isn’t elsewhere. The best solution if you still want to use it is to use 3rd party apps. Personally I would actually count that as having no reliance on Google in particular anymore. If a video platform owned by Google wasn’t the most popular then it would be another platform. I don’t think you should think of 3rd party apps as YouTube frontends, but rather, apps that scrape videos hosted on Google’s servers.
To use an Alphabet product is to support Alphabet regardless of how you access it. If you want to de-google, then stop using their products 100%.
Explain how this makes any sense. Using alternative clients effectively kills their access to the users, including, but not limited to, serving targeted ads.
If you believe I’m wrong, feel free to counter me with evidence.