It makes sense, but I don't think it'll work when you consider the full picture. Youtube got in trouble with advertisers and the news media for making money and

It makes sense, but I don't think it'll work when you consider the full picture. Youtube got in trouble with advertisers and the news media for making money and showing ads on unacceptable content. Their response was the ad-pocalypse. Those patreon plugs and ad copy came because youtube has a capricious and nasty AI system that will nuke your monetization. Youtube having those features doesn't fix the problem because it'll still demonetize at the drop of a hat, it'll still ban and hide people. The advantage of those other monetization strategies was that it means you can make money from your videos without relying directly on youtube. So whilst it might look like the same thing, in reality this doesn't solve the problems that content creators have.