> YouTube empowers millions of creators around the world.

Agree.

But it empowers them to vie for attention in mostly the worst ways possible and, overwhelmingly, has led to a lot of bad content. There's some gems too. But, by and large, YouTube is less desirable for me to use than it was 10 years ago and I think it's because of the transformation into an industry, rather than an indie platform that also paid out.

It feels like it went from a farmer's market with a lot of local farmers selling their goods to shopping at Walmart.