Its not from chesskid
sometimes when I promote a pawn I don’t take a queen

It really depends on the position. There are cases like Albin's counter gambit trap in Queens pawn opening. In one of the lines, you promote your pawn to a knight or else you lose the attack pressure.
Sometimes promoting to a knight ends up in mate in 1 instead of queen promotion.
Sometimes queen promotion leads to stalemates.
you learnt this on chesskid did you
That ones famous