I'm not ready to leave YouTube yet (but I'm logged in for my subscriptions with a junk account they're not learning anything about me from). Some channels, I have followed for so long, I don't want to walk away.
But over the years, I have seen *so many* YouTube creators eventually post to their channels some version of, "I'm burned out", "I can't do this anymore", "I need to take a break", etc. And I think it's YouTube as a system that's doing it.
Before there was any money to be made there, it was people just doing videos about whatever they wanted. If you were doing vids regularly, it was because you just wanted to share what mattered to you.
Then monetization arrived. Now, "what you love" became, for many, "a job". "A grind", even. The system encourages more, better, longer, etc. People turn this hobby into their entire life. I'm not surprised that grinds them down. Not only do you now have a job you didn't sign up for, you've turned your passion into a grind, so it's not going to feel so good anymore. Many expand their channels, hire other people, now they feel responsible for other people's livings and the pressure just increases.
I don't have an answer--except, perhaps, don't do that. But I've seen it so often, and while I'm sympathetic, I know why it's happening. Do they?