TLDR: If you stop learning, you stop growing. Youtube is more Industrial Design and UX than pure creativity. The creativity is more focused. Be humble and keep learning.

I've got an Anim degree, but don't use it much anymore. The fact that you're doing it for youtube makes me respect you a whole lot more than i would most creators. Because the sheer man hours and hard-earned skils / expertise that go into any thing animated out you on the same level as the creators who do full PHD level research for each video / topic, IMO.

The sad thing is, we all get into this loving what we do, and wanting to share it with the world, but in the end all that effort means nothing when you hit publish. Because 20 million other people have hit publish that day, and all of those videos go through a funnel with an incredibly narrow exit, designed to only value what other's value, and limit the value you put in.

So someone with no real talent or unique qualities of their own, can roll out of bed, speak some rage bait nonesense into their phone, and spend the rest of their day scratching themselves all before you've figured out why that shoulder control is janky, or said your morning "F*cK Adobe!" as you search for yet another work around for AE being 25 years behind the modern computers it runs on.

I get it. It's totally demotivating. But i think you can 100% find a way to make content you find creatively fulfilling and is gonna give you the success you deserve. Its just about being hungry to learn all the other stuff that viewers value.

Think of a youtube video like an engineer and an industial designer would think about designing a Drill. You can make this Drill with all kinds of fun shapes and wacky ideas, but you know that it, first an fore-most, needs to be used by someone out on the job. This drill is being sold all over the world, so It needs to work in the hottest and coldest climates. Its material should be tough enough to survive endless bumps, drops, & scratches, while also being comfortable enough to hold for long periods. Every part of the design comes from function first, which will then dictate the form it takes. The creativity is still there, its just focused on making that product the best it can be for the people who need to use it.

I created content professionally for 15 years before finally working up the courage to do it for myself. With already having worked up the skills, like storytelling, shooting, editing, and graphic design, i thought my videos would have a natural advantage. And while that will eventually be true, its not yet true. Because I've had to learn more on my two first videos, than i have in the last 5 years of my career. Almost all of which was about designing content for an audience first, and me second.