I kind of like @dnews response to Kenans video. He essentially said if you're not earning enough to make it worth creating longform content, then don't. He said spend as much time on here as you would with any other hobby and for your money go find another area to provide value that people will pay you better for.

Now that doesn't solve the problem of shitty content making money and good content not making the money and in some ways it further exacerbates the problem in that everyon's just gonna crank out fast shitty content, but in terms of us all keeping our sanity I think that makes a lot of sense. Why waste time effort and take on needless frustration dumping a lot of time into something that doesn't return anything.