There’s also the argument that adblocking but buying merch, using sponsor links and/or providing direct financial support to the channel provides significantly more income to the creator than the ads for your individual views ever would.
Personally I take a much more individualistic view of “I hate ads and can’t afford YouTube’s adfree offering so I use an adblocker instead” but I don’t see the need to defend my choice to starve the creator of the $0.05 in ad revenue I might have generated them otherwise