I had the same experience, but hopping over to F-Droid from the Play Store provided a different NewPipe (instead of 'Newpipe') that I believe is the pertinent one.

There is no Newpipe on the Play store, it breaks the T&S of the play store.

Here is the official website for Newpipe https://newpipe.net/

Git repo https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe