Instead they have consistently taken a strategy of ignoring anyone as much as physically possible, punishing even "big" youtubers for asking innocent questions, making creator's content worse without their permission and actively against their will, and siding with large external businesses over the needs of the majority of their content creators.
A youtube that I would spend money to support would do things like provide dedicated support channels to medium sized creators that could actually do things instead of just being a sounding board, be VERY clear about what advertisers do not want in content you want to make money from, create high quality sponsor and/or merch integration, reward creators for effort and polish over simply filling the space with as much as possible, get rid of clickbait in general, build a robust content licensing system so it would be easier and more reliable for content creators to sample video content in legitimate ways for a reasonable cost (creators are not afraid to spend hundreds of dollars on stock footage for a valuable video and would be willing to license content), and other ways to make content creators more effective and not encourage them to work themselves to death in a content machine and antagonistic treadmill system.
So yeah, fuck giving them a dime for actively harming the people who actually make the stuff that brings me to the platform.
I use the Brave Browser and never see ads on YouTube.
Only ads in podcast shows where the podcaster is advertising it, but even for those I have the SponsorBlock plugin that skips those portions of the videos.