I think within the video in question is the beginnings of a good justification for this. He views his job as getting his educational content in front as many pe

I think within the video in question is the beginnings of a good justification for this. He views his job as getting his educational content in front as many people that can learn from it as possible. Part of that is making sure he can afford to do so, so we should consider holistically whether breaking from the ad roll time format is better in the end or not. if he can keep up the quantity and quality of videos, then maybe it's worth breaking with that format. If he can't, then maybe it's not. The is a similar question as to whether scientists should break from universities and corporate labs and fund their research and experiments without ties to those institutions, which will necessarily have some impact on the science being carried out in small and sometimes large ways. Personally, I suspect that there would be a large drop in both quality and quantity if this were to become the norm.