I mean, it's not hard to avoid clickbait or poor quality content. I'd say that without the prospect of earning money a lot of quality content wouldn't exist. Of course wherever there's income there will be people trying to exploit it, but I think that YouTube wouldn't be what it is today if content creators didn't get paid.
I'd like to roll back the clock to when youtube itself took all (or at least most) of its advertising income from its users' videos.