Look, their first point in the video is about viewers. Viewers can get a reward for taking their role in the community and it all depends on how convenient it will be...
Basically, if users move somewhere for profit or entertainment - creators will catch up. All can be changed quickly - you will never know what would be next big thing
I think you're absolutely right. the project offer a good profit for both users and content authors. So he has every chance to become popular of course if the team implements all that promises.
Yes now we see that the world is changing and YouTube becomes too politicized and blocks users for their opinion. perhaps a decentralized platform will be able to help us with this right now.