YouTube has recently expanded their enforcement of "inauthentic content", "repetitious content", and other spam related categories, so much so that there is a festering narrative about the unjust nature, and malicious intent of those policies.
I disagree. YouTube is grappling with an infestation of low quality content, exacerbated daily by the prevalence of generic AI content, with very options available to them as recourse.
The option they chose is to try and root out a larger share of that spam, and with that policy, there will be side effects. Is it ideal? No. Does it need improvement? Yes.
However, much like the Copyright system on this platform, YouTube is occasionally ahead of their peers with policy decisions, and this is a time where the pain is necessary for the betterment of the platform as a whole.