https://piped.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=S-UmqvA7uR8?t=4
I recommend comparing the video quality from Youtube to an external scraping site like this Piped instance in the future. This would ensure you get to see any difference side by side to any further odd quality options offered by Youtube.
These were captured using Piped; with preferences configured for it to use whichever Codec is available to it.
Piped will prefer codecs in the following order:
- AV1
- VP9
- AVC (h.264)