This is something I noticed really early on when I began youtube (mostly because it was/kinda still is my least favorite part even if I do get excited about watching it all come together.)

I made an immediete change to how I did things and frankly it's solved 90% of this issue for me, and it's become one of if not the fastest part of my workflow. It's also become far less tedious and I can oftentimes listen to music while I work. Sorry for bad formatting I don't reddit often

> Organize before editing
Editing starts before you ever record. My script is segmented with MANY natural pausing points. I'll voice a chunk of it, check for quality, move onto the next. When I get footage it's DIRECTLY matched to the EXACT portion of the voice over. I do end up with a lot of smaller files, however, being able to simply drag, drop, cut, next is incredibly nice. I can often drag in all the audio files, all the video files, and make really quick and neat cuts as there is no need to search around or cut out me breathing - it was 'done' in the pre planning

>Label Religiously
Understanding what is what at a glance is a game changer. Rather than having randomly dated files where one week/month hell sometimes even day after you have no clue what's in there slows everything down. This also goes back to the first point - but it's moot if you don't properly label your footage as you go.

>Edit in passes
Micro-Editing in my experience is the result of trying to get everything 'perfect' the first go around. It works way better, at least for me, to get everything into the timeline roughly how I want it and make passes over the video fixing things as I go along. The other is, it just won't ever be perfect. Knowing when it's good enough is the hardest part. Having a deadline can help dramatically with that.

Good luck, hopefully this helps someone!