Yep, my long term goal is to not use Udemy, but in the short term, something like you mentioned is how I plan to move forward.

It's going to be tricky to find a good balance (the bare-bones Udemy version still needs to have high value), but it's doable.

I have a lot of ideas this year for new content and I'm going to experiment with paid courses, free courses and even not putting some courses on Udemy just to see what happens.