[...] it's the USERS who drive every single thing that Youtube (or any other business) does. [...]
Profit motive of corporations (including Youtube's owner) has nothing to do with it?
What's the problem with profit motive?? Everyone has it. You have it, or else you wouldn't go to work every day to make money. Every single human on the planet has it. The goal is to get profit so you can pay the bills and hopefully have some $$ left over to buy fun stuff. And we do whatever we can to get more. How is that possibly a bad thing?? Try to get the most you can for the product or service you provide.
I keep hearing people blaming "greedy corporations" for all kinds of terrible stuff, and then the same people find ways to pay the least amount of taxes to increase their profits. They want to get more pay for the work they do to increase their profits. They want to win the lottery (other peoples' money) to get more money for themselves. They want to pay as little as they can at the department store to increase their profits. They buy cheap stuff from China, where wages are super low and people are poor, so they can increase their profits.
And I guarantee there's not a lot of Youtube employees who complain about Youtube profit motive. It's what keeps them employed and pays their bills and feeds their family and allows them to go on vacation.
Like I say, we humans are absolutely incapable of blaming ourselves so we point fingers at everyone else.
The hypocrisy is jaw dropping. "Do as I say, not as I do"