I'm a lot less worried about misinformation than I am about whether we're letting reasonable, educated or informed people speak up.

One of the interesting parts of COVID was it seemed like anyone with a PhD and a YouTube channel was contorting to try and avoid ... I want to call it something less inflammatory than a censorship regime but I'm not sure what else to call it. They were often making points that were technically correct and held up reasonably well in hindsight about possible origins of the disease, likely efficacy of different strategies and going through scientific studies in real time.

I never found out what the qualifications of the YouTube Trust & Safety team had. I doubt they were mostly PhD holders.

I don't mind YouTubers being wrong from time to time, but the systemic suppression of complaints based on some central office's opinion on whether they are legitimate can't work. It didn't seem to work in practice either.