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As others mentioned, Delta is flying a mixed fleet where some planes have better WiFi than others. Additionally, there are delta-branded non-delta-managed flights and I’ve found those have bad WiFi too.

So it definitely “could be you” except that doesn’t really matter since if all you have available on your routes is trash, free trash is still trash.

the old wifi (Gogo Inflight) is slow and terrible. The new wifi being rolled out (ViaSat) is better, the speedtest screenshots I've seen have been 50-150 Mbps down.

But they will still prevent youtube videos. Once you put 150 people on a flight with, that bandwidth will be expected to drop significantly.

Is this changing with the free WiFi rollout? I was on a flight very recently with updated Viasat Wifi and was able to stream YouTube.

Is the quality bad because the airlines just don't care when the Wi-Fi signal gets hugged to death or because it's hard to offer a stable connection at those altitudes? I fly with Spirit a couple of times a month and tried their $6 Wi-Fi service which straight up never worked both times.