To be clear, I never watch YT 'review' or 'howto' videos. I never lost the ability to read at length,because I always had need to exercise it.

ICYMI:

Who are the most knowledgeable among the prolific Linux youtubers?

I'm not a fan of videos for learning, even when they are good. Your eyes dart from the video to what you are trying to do and back, and by the time you are back at the video they are 2-3 minutes in and you missed alot of stuff. I tried to use videos for learning Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape and I found a well-written tutorial in print was much more useful.

I have to disagree with the guy that said "man pages". They seem to assume you already know what you are doing and just need a refresher. The "mailx" man page is over 8,000 lines long: kind of hard to wade through that to figure out how to change a setting.

You can find long help pages like that. It's unusual in man pages. I think 'info pppd' took the record as the longest page ever, but I could be wrong.

In fairness, I decided after a while that they could only be written by academics who are well capable of writing 20,000 words even if they have nothing to say

1. What this document is about.
2. What this document is not about.
3. Previous versions of this document.
4. Previous authors of similar documents.
5. What this document could have been about.
6. Ontology & Epistology of this document.
7. Conventions used in this document.
8. etc. etc.

Once you get into the psychology of someone who makes a linux video, you will never watch one. They love the sound of their own voice and are rarely thorough. It's an ego trip for the maker, appealimng to a nearly non-existent audience.

I have found web documents best, even the occasional practical blog. You can find config file examples ready to copy & paste. I nearly always go that road. Mind you, it's usually a server I'm setting up

For alternative video I use

https://www.youtube.com/c/runwiththedolphin

Since it deals with what I use and am interested in. So I find difficult to relate to this thread since it takes free work to do these.
Don't give me the make money on hits routine.
I know Linux tutorials aint popular with the masses.
Looking at dolphins videos. I can see most are in the 2000 hit range.
He does good work though.

Edit> Bikers perspective. Not programmer.

Unfortunately, I have found that most people who try to write an "instructional video" have utterly no idea how to write nor to produce one. They simply turn on their phone-camera (mounted in some sort of stand), and start talking. Well, I have found that it takes a lot of advance planning, scripting, and then editing to produce a truly cohesive and useful video. Therefore, I spend very little time "watching videos."

Where youtube has 'useful' information is specific 'howto's . How to replace that truck taillight/air filter/etc. on 'x' vehicle for example. Or open up a certain model of laptop to replace the HDD. Things like that. For Linux help, usually I can find it simply by typing in duckduckgo (or googling for those that use that service) for what I am looking for. Watching a video to learn Linux (a vast landscape to cover) seems to be a 'most' inefficient time consuming way of learning ... in my mind. Just use a search engine to ask what to what to 'do' and get on with it. Get to the point 'immediately'. No time wasted watching/listening to some talking head where 30 minutes in, he finally gets to the 'point' or what you wanted to know.

Now, where watching is 'good' is using a particular 'application' where 'visual' show me really helps (like a CAD application). Say, watching the 'Intro to FreeCad' videos to get started. I did find them 'very' useful for starting to design parts for laser cutting and 3D printing. Now that I got the basics, I search for specific 'howto' or ask on the FreeCad forum.