I recently started seeing some great YouTube musicians (Davie504, Pellek, etc) have to make videos to promote their Patreon due to sharp decline of revenue and

I recently started seeing some great YouTube musicians (Davie504, Pellek, etc) have to make videos to promote their Patreon due to sharp decline of revenue and I feel bad for them. Music production, especially for indie musicians, is very expensive (equipments, DAW plugins, hiring people to mix and master, etc). It's a very sad situation and a massive discouragement for YouTubers to keep up their video quality, in a long run, bad for YouTube as a content distribution platform.