I think to address this specific situation all YouTube literally needs to do is to allow you to check your video for copyright/content/etc violations before upl

I think to address this specific situation all YouTube literally needs to do is to allow you to check your video for copyright/content/etc violations before upload in a robust way. That REALLY shouldn't be impossible for google, literally just run all the checks you're running now at upload time. Then if the robust check failed, a human moderator should be able to apply a manual override. This sort of thing would both be more economical, allow you to get a more through review in advance, and actually be less arbitrary than wholly human moderation.