I do sympathize with them though if they decide to put in ads, endorsements, solicit for likes and subscribers because from what I hear putting out high quality

I do sympathize with them though if they decide to put in ads, endorsements, solicit for likes and subscribers because from what I hear putting out high quality videos requires a lot of investment that needs to be compensated in one way or another. YouTube itself incentivizes churning out new content frequently. Perhaps it's the infrastructure that's broken. Something like the approach that Brave browser implemented could make the above less necessary, where a viewer has a wallet with funds which get distributed to the various the producers proportionally to time spent on their content.