Really? Things only really hit the fan when the bans scaled up. I don't ever remember things being this bad 5 years ago.
A point so simple it feels silly to point it out, but here we are.
The rate of spread is a problem of YouTube's own devising based on clicks, views and likes. Remove this gamification and you'll see less engagement, hence less scale of radicalization.
With youtube labeling people "radicals" is a deliberate polarising term designed to do little more than tar and feather people into a specific box. Just like segregation, just like Protestants, just like the German Jews... Etc. It's very unflattering.