And I personally enjoy Youtube very much. So much great content for free. If I need to learn about something i find myself looking into youtube first quite often.
I guess that's what is to be expected with a platform over time. the market will optimize conditions until some peak of efficiency is reached, occasionally this will shift to another peak of perhaps even lower or higher efficiency after overcoming some activation energy or in the pretense of some catalyst (like when creators first realized the optimal video length). Its all seemingly thermodynamic in nature.
That being said, it sure gives you rose tinted glasses of those days of a dumb short and funny video of an actual unscripted happenstance, or someone teaching you how to fix something and actually pointing the camera at that something instead of their own face. It's like the stakes were lower and egos were nonexistent back then, and everything seemed a little more genuine.
The content is unparalleled. Home repair is one of my most valued content types on the site.
There are many, many different types of house problems and solutions covered by videos.
Even when you get to something that seemingly has no person describing the problem and fix, you can often get close enough to improvise based on other people’s ideas.
YouTube is a skill building platform. You can save money by becoming more self-reliant.
Despite other comments here, I think the search is quite good. It sometimes ignores keywords but returns the video I _intended_ to seek.
I don’t care for shorts, though and would hide them completely if able.
It would also be good to have relatively anonymous ways to upload video. Sometimes I’ll establish a novel solution and would post the information but wouldn’t want it associated with my identity—or even to monetize it.