But that's kind of the whole point - just as the parent poster implies, I very much like content from people who are not "creators", for whom that project is a

But that's kind of the whole point - just as the parent poster implies, I very much like content from people who are not "creators", for whom that project is a side hobby and their primary identity is not as the creator of these things, where they're doing it for themselves and not for an audience or me. If some or most of them can't commit to that as a profession, that's fine, there's far too much content anyway, and if most of the content-makers quit and only the "hardcore hobbyists" remain, those who would do that even if they had to pay for it, that's an okay outcome which still leaves more than enough content, and the good stuff does not get drowned out by fake garbage manufactured by those who want "random content creation" to be a profession. We have far too many independent creators who are motivated by money as that money pushes the "market" towards bullshit, so we need fewer of them and need to push some of them out. Less money flowing for views of that content is a way to achieve that.