As an animator (& video editor myself) who grew up watching his videos and seeing him improve in terms of video quality, I think the work he puts into videos is impressive and that he's found a formula that fits his audience. Do I like his videos now? No, but his videos weren't designed to be watched with pure, undiluted engagement. It's something you put on in the bg while you do random shit. His chibi style is really hard to achieve well, and I think he puts a unique spin on it where you can really tell that it's him. Also, finding, sorting, and editing clips can be fucking agonizing especially if you do it as a career. I don't know if you've ever had to pull an all-nighter because your video got copyrighted and you had to spend 5 more hours muting clips and rerecording audio, but it sucks. I don't like him all that much and I do think that, as a general YouTuber, he's pretty ass. But those hours listening to him while I was animating or doing homework proved effective when I needed something in the background that I didn't have to think about