I do get more than a bit frustrated when those people assert that because they believe they themselves do get sufficient understanding from videos, everyone must also, and that anyone complaining otherwise is just stuck in the old times and complaining out of contrariness.
That is, IMNSHO, a classic indicator of Dunning-Kruger syndrome. While it may be sufficient for monkey-see-monkey-do tasks, it will be insufficient for many novel innovative tasks.
To be clear, I was not actually referring to anyone participating in this thread, any past thread here, or any personal messages sent to me!
I was remembering the few cases where I was tutoring or trying to help a teen, and reached for a book or suggested a chapter in a book, and they responded with something along the lines of "can't you find a video for me instead?" followed by a frustrating discussion about what is understanding, what is knowledge and application of understanding, and what is copying and learning by rote.
I only realized just now that that part could be read as if I was railing against anyone asking if I knew a good video on some subject; that's not the case at all. For example, RoGeorge recently asked me for advice on a good Python GUI tutorial book/article/blog/video in the Programming / Python thread, but I couldn't give any because I haven't seen any. (I ended up posting an example instead.) There is absolutely nothing wrong in considering multiple different sources, and even falling back to Youtube when nothing better can be found!
When tutoring teens in math and physics, the hardest part is getting them over the "I don't know how to do this!" / "I can't do this!" mindset.
(There is no "can" or "cannot", there is only "try and see what happens". Force and Magic can smell my butt. Take it one step at a time, no matter how unsurmountable the problem might look
now.)
I believe this mindset is related to the quick and easy answers that proliferate on the internet, with actual understanding requiring effort that is not normally rewarded or required, leading to the superficiality and short-term objectives; with videos preferred over written text simply because they require minimal (cognitive) effort to pass the minimum requirements.
The meme version of my complaint is "I don't wanna read that, it's too long. Can't you make it a TikTok video instead?"