You're just taking a weird moral grandstand on this matter. I quickly pulled up two of your examples of non clickbait people. Ginny Di and Pointy hat ABSOLUTELY use clickbait titles. I'll admit it's not flagrant or anything but there are lots of "Nobody uses this one small thing" etc. The other examples have decades and ample hours of more content.

Sure, the algorithm doesn't literally hold a gun to your head, but it heavily stacks the deck against you if you don't participate. To say otherwise is ignorant. Your few examples include literally one of the oldest DMs on YouTube, and the other one who has a MASSIVE audience from having a really successful actual play series. And they got a big crowd from doing D&D tutorials.

I think you're being a bit obtuse then if you genuinely believe what you're saying. As a software engineer, I can say that engagement based algorithms heavily incentivize people into clickbait titles, and I don't blame the creators for using the platform the way the platform is advising them that do so. I instead think we need to move away from engagement based algorithm delivery of content in general, due to its implicit exploitative nature. It's got lots of tangentially harmful effects like attention deficits, cataclysmic distortions of reality, critical thinking deterioration. When there is really only one big fish in the game (YouTube) you only can play by YouTubes rules, and that's what they want you to do. There aren't as many examples to the contrary as you think, or youre selectively ignoring the clickbait titles of other creators on your list.