I'll admit to knowingly taking advantage of Google's pricing, but I had assumed it was within a gray area. No warning bans are insane.

Google has always done no warning bans

YouTube is also full of huge content creators, people who make Google tons of money, that complain about the Byzantine and opaque rules they have to dance around to maintain their livelihood and fan base

Google fears their giant userbases so they act with zero regard for communication and transparency because of the small chance it’d help the abusers