Funny, I have a similar observation but the opposite opinion: I realized that my favorite major platform these days is Youtube because there's a ton of great co

Funny, I have a similar observation but the opposite opinion: I realized that my favorite major platform these days is Youtube because there's a ton of great content there that is harder to find elsewhere. Unfortunately, a lot of that content would be much better in written form. As an example, I recently watched a video about the best weapons in Tears of the Kingdom that was over 40 minutes long, but all that information could have been a ~3000-word blog post. Yes, some of the information is best conveyed in video form (demonstrating certain effects with in-game footage), but a lot of the content was essentially just the creator explaining out loud why certain combinations work well. For the bits of information that work better as video, the author could embed a short video into the article. It probably would've been a lot less effort for the creator to make a listicle or blog post with a section for each of the weapons shown, and it would certainly save the viewers a lot of time. But then such a blog post would probably make way less money than the Youtube video. Youtube does a better-than-average job of paying creators for popular content, and they've fostered a network effect where audiences go to Youtube when looking for certain types of information. All this means that the incentives push people to create video content even when another medium would suit the content better.