If you don't agree with these policy shift I urge you to support projects such as PeerTube[1] any way you can (code, running a node etc.).
All they care about the fact that the revenue source was pulled off of them.
Patreon is amazing tho.
The question here is whether it's harder to get an audience by being discovered among the millions of other videos on YouTube, or by being discovered among the millions of websites on the internet. If you're competent at marketing it shouldn't really make a difference either way.