I never payed attention to maker youtubers as a young adult.

What changed everything for me was visiting a hackerspace and getting my own hands dirty making things. I got so distracted making things in the 15 years since that I have never have time to make content to share what I learned. Always more things to build or fix.

Totally the opposite problem to what you describe!

Maybe we should focus more on exposing people to making things in workshops, and communities, rather than content.