Since its inception in 2020, YouTube shorts have been Tikkok’s tough competitor in the short-shaped content sector, but from recently YouTube has had a bit of driveway with problems that many users have picked up. As reported by people at Reddit (see below), a new Bug Auto-Plays tab will play the shorts tab as soon as you open the YouTube app.
YouTube -App opens for shorts from R/YouTube
This question has been completely off and off for YouTube and has somehow reappeared for more and more people in the last few weeks. Too many users, the app opens automatically to display the shorts tab if it was the last thing seen/ used as opposed to opening YouTube website as it normally would.