You have lots of very good points here.

I suppose in the end, the only real change will be- perhaps the quality of content goes down.

Or- maybe us that came over here to lemmyland will just be reddit's competition now.

YouTube pisses people off, especially the content creators, with their algorithm changes and unknowing demonetization rules. They and the viewers are still there, pumping out and consuming content.

Don't get me started on YouTube. lol. They have drove away a lot of the content I used to enjoy seeing.