Same here; I love YouTube.
But there's trouble a-brewin' on YouTube, which is owned by Google, and Google wants to get even richer off of it. So they're making some changes, including increased ads. Sure, you can have all of the ads blocked...if you pay Google...so they're also taking a bigger chunk of the money that YouTube video creators earn, while also forcing them to run more ads, and issuing strikes against some creators and taking their videos down, and even deleting entire channels for very ambiguous reasons.
So, a lot of YouTube creators are leaving the platform. And it seems to me that Google wants certain creators to leave. It seems to me that Google has a definite idea about what types of *entertainment* they want to keep on YouTube....for you, the viewer.
And after Google roots out all the YouTube creators they don't like (aren't making a ton of money), it's very likely The Company will eventually start charging a monthly fee to access the "new, more exciting" YouTube streaming channel; "All your favorites, All the time!" for just $14.99/mo, or whatever.
It's very concerning.