In reality, there’s lot of opportunities that benefit all 3 of user, Google, and decision maker.
it’s kind of the fundamental principle of trade/business - that both sides can proper in a deal.
I'd love to think so, but the truth is that any platform, working correctly, disadvantages those who contribute most of the content. The platform owners earn money in ways that are always contrary to the interests of the content creators.
game developer, musician, mangaka, streamer, etc
Youtube's main source of revenue is ads which they serve regardless of whether the uploader is taking a cut from the upload or not. Most users have always and will continue to upload to and consume from youtube without the expectation of making money from the process.
So, yes in general users have historically been more or less satisfied with the deal: watch ads, get free video platform.