They are hilariously good. No matter what else happens, those videos are worth watching.
They're (IMHO) unwatchable when you follow the money trail and realise what they are, and always were: thinly veiled shills.
So, only the Dorico video is even possible to be a shill. Also, oh my goodness if he made YouTube videos to raise his personal profile, as opposed to all the other YouTubers who make videos anonymously?!?
But to address the wider point, the same complaint could be made about anything anyone ever wrote anything for money. Since some works written for money have lasting merit, the mere fact that something was written for money should not count against it.