What's stopping people from creating these hobbyists sites now? Or you from using them?
…and if the hobbyists know that their sites aren’t going to get any visitors, there’s little reason to make them in the first place.
For all the negatives, a consistent stream is one of the biggest benefits from professional content creators, be it traditional news, Youtubers, streamers, or even bloggers.
These are not mutually exclusive things, sorry if I implied that.
My point was more about the race to the bottom with commercial content sites/networks/publications in what seems like a borderless space, with increasingly bad incentives to draw in users.