This has been my experience as well. I have been using YouTube for over 7 years and the feed is getting worse. I imagine it's not great on the content creator s

This has been my experience as well. I have been using YouTube for over 7 years and the feed is getting worse. I imagine it's not great on the content creator side either. I know most youtubers have been looking to view count rather than subscriber count for a success metric. That to me signals that there is less loyalty to content creators and more loyalty to topics. That loyalty shift weakens content creator's fan bases. That combined with the current user experience of the "feed" is not what I would call perfection.