I do agree with your assessment (although it's more complicated than that).
Historically, rights holders (RH) used to have the upper hand, then the Internet came and took their reign down while giving upper hand to DSPs. Now RHs are trying to tip the scale back where it was.
Neither is a good situation. I definitely do not know what the right solution is, but nor the status quo nor the proposal is any good.
My radical view on this is to try to come up with some kind of compulsory license similar to the one that exists in music in US [0] for all content. The rates could be set up by panel of judges (similarly to US) or put in place arbitrary at lets say 50%.
This way, if creator produces content and decides to distribute it, she can't prevent a platform (DSP) from distributing it, however DSP can't avoid a payment.
Obviously this is a gross simplification, but I'm not seeing many ways out of this mess.
[0] https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-a-compulsory-licen...