YouTube likely won't change, the profit is too big even if the model is failing.... They exist to make big brand partnerships that make them tons of money, they generate tons of money from embedded ads on content they don't have to pay for, and they collect lots of independent revenue from any account that wants to be viewed by charging for paid promotion fr visibility.... Pure profit.

YouTube also has volumes of content, most of which barely gets seen, while they have a massive user base that is regularly unsatisfied with recommendations they get, and a creator base that makes no money despite grinding immeasurably on original content. Content thiefs regularly get rewarded big on the platform.

The content ID system is abused by black hat hackers regularly to make money and YouTube does relatively little to stop it because it doesn't cut into their overall platform revenue. The content ID system also serves big business in supporting a gate for what is sampled and remixed, and it frequently is only applied to medium and small creators, which often blacklists those creators from the site altogether.

The content ID system has also helped me in small ways to protect my own IP, as I've found that a few people have directly copied my own content and re-upload it as their own, so it's not all bad, but if they slow my video down by a tiny bit, or change the audio in one of many other ways content ID is totally useless...

There are thousands of accounts that transform audio (slowing it down slightly and doing other things like adding reverb to audio) on video clips, which literally steals money from creators and musicians on the platform. Audio is one of the primary facets of content ID on Youtube.

YouTube's technical support is extremely weak, because they really don't care about anything other than pleasing shareholders now because of the long line of people who upload endless streams of video content in hopes of being discovered, but the market is totally saturated with creators, and small creators only make pennies because they're always pitted against hackers and large corporations with lots of money for attention.

YouTube is still useful if you know how to dig deep and find content where people aren't stretching out presentations just to improve their "watch time" metrics or following the scripts of creating bright thumbnail images, using clickbait-ey titles, and saying "like, follow, and subscribe" over and over again in every video.

YouTube won't change until people stop following the fake sense of conformity it encourages. The majority of platform creators are spending tons of money and time creating content that only works on YouTube ritually for no pay, and subjecting themselves to rules based on whims of YouTube executives, that work to please shareholders and major accounts, not to find new talent and to drive innovation for the platform that benefits creators.