The content is also getting worse as creators are put into smaller and smaller boxes. Additionally the commentary, which is arguably more useful that the oc, is severely limited and affects peoples use.

Its inevitable that a lot of users will abandon YouTube steadily because it fails to provide access and use to the topics we are interested in. And its not political stuff, like you have gamers, health stuff, and normie stuff that's being limited so bad people can't use YouTube. Look at how frustrating it is to use reddit with all the rules and insta removals.