Copyright strikes are such a blatant example of the legal system being bought and paid for by the wealthy, it's not even funny.
Nothing against creating content for yourself, or your friends, or future people though. Just don't expect fame or money.
From personal experience I can't say the system works any better if you're a creator whose content is getting ripped from other sources and put onto YouTube either. I've had people ripping numerous videos and it apparently takes longer to complete YouTube's takedown form than it takes for the ripper to upload the exact same video to their channel again. I thought there was supposed to be some provision in the safe harbor laws that YouTube hides behind to deal with repeat offenders but apparently it doesn't carry any practical weight if there is.
I'd be the first to agree that copyright protection has been expanded too far and the mechanisms for enforcing it are often used unfairly and in a heavy-handed way. Reform is well overdue. I'd have slightly more understanding if those methods did at least work in cases of flagrant infringement that are exactly what copyright law was always supposed to prohibit but it seems they don't. Not for the little creator at least.
It is a problem, but it's not genuinely an obstacle for creators finding audiences. Making good content that people like and getting enough traction to have a userbase is orders of magnitude more of a risk than getting a copyright strike.