The place it is nowadays is the place you go to watch videos. You literally wrote "as youtube watcher". The existence of ad bucks is what made people create be

The place it is nowadays is the place you go to watch videos. You literally wrote "as youtube watcher". The existence of ad bucks is what made people create better and better productions, which attracted more viewers, and that is why youtube became the default place for people like you to go for video stuff. You can't just remove that feature and have the rest. I'm sure you didn't talk to every single creator whose video you watch and ask them if they did it without hoping for some YT ad bucks and whether they would have done it if there were no YT bucks. You can say they would but don't kid yourself we live in a capitalism and most people don't have enough money