The UI is bad, but the most frustrating aspect of YouTube is the continuous struggle between creators and the automatic copyright strike system. Nearly every single large YouTuber I've subscribed to has had some experience with a false copyright claim interfering with their platform at one point.
It feels like YouTube actively doesn't want creators to grow a community on their platform.
YouTube is between a rock and an hard place, on one side creators expect it to be a reasonable platform on the other side legacy media will attack it with a viciousness proportional to how much it is not a shitty place for creators.
Until they stop siding against the creators they will never escape from it.
It feels like YouTube actively doesn't want creators to grow a community on their platform.