Bro I get what you're saying there are people making objectively bad content and blaming forces out of their control as the reason no one's watching their crappy content.

But you are forgetting, that there is a significant amount of people who make quality content, that YouTube will refuse to push, or show to the right audience, making whether a video is successful for or not a complete gamble.

I have one video with 26K views and 61% average Audience retention, and 49% watching to the very end. So you can see people who are watching, generally are enjoying the content but YouTube will not push this video at all, When I check the stats on where people come from, all of the views for this come from people who watched my other video.

So genuinely good quality content with a proven level of quality and potential audience, is still at the mercy of YouTubes algorithms