The amount of effort that goes in to playing advertising metric games of YouTube is ridiculous to me. Anyone that says well people have to get paid I say maybe.
Real creators create and don't need the like, subscribe, patreon, mantra. Most of the gunsmithing sights on YouTube are moving towards this idea.
I don't believe in the discovery myth so many talk about as essential. It is only essential if you need inorganic growth.
I would say it's an emerging trend and that the more they tighten their grip the more creators will slip through their fingers.
Reliable machinery always has a shop manual, diagrams and prints. Programming languages have tomes of documentation, computing infrastructure has man pages and volumes of commentary, scholarship and trouble shooting have been committed to characters.
Aside from the point and grunt visuals, solid presentations (viewed after the fact when the value of real time interaction is gone) work fine as text.
If you're dyslexic, I get it but TTS systems are extremely solid these days.
What is the point?