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a split setup could still allow login to youtube with a google ID; just like you can login to some sites using google/facebook/etc - so that might stop that breaking.

(I did notice today that Google video search was dominated by Tiktok results rather than youtube for the first time)

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Which is how YouTube worked when Google bought it. I had to live through the nightmare of consolidating separate Google accounts and YouTube accounts with the same email address. Same with Blogger. It's not hard to imagine YouTube just being another separate oAuth'd account.

The merging of YouTube and Google identities was an absolute nightmare. I was managing a site that used, I believe it was called "Google Apps for Your Domain" at the time, the predecessor to Google Workspace.

Ultimately we disabled YouTube in the Google admin panel for the organization, and advised the users to start sharing an unrelated Gmail account to manage the org's YouTube page.

I can't imagine un-merging the service logins to go any better.

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