@grayface_ghost you are expressing my sentiment succinctly, thank you!
My experience with finding expert guides on YouTube, however, has also gone down hill fast in the last few months. And I think their established pattern of monopolizing an avenue to knowledge only to "embrace, extend, extinguish" it away has not nearly brought the amount of scrutiny or disdain it deserves.
We wrote scientific papers about YT-acceleration of cultural learning, for crying out loud!