No, this line was not ever necessary. They could have done this before too.
I think this line was added in to seed the idea that YouTube will become like modern TV. So that when they start slowly rolling out the rules, people with justify it and ignore it.
Shame for YouTube, it seems they made one vital oversight that will end up costing them this long game. It may only be one mistake, but it is the worst mistake they could make...
Normies don't read the TOS.
Oh yeah also this:
Althouuuuugh if YouTube goes down this route and yeets everyone who doesn't make videos for profit then people will migrate to any platform where they can just upload.
So basically. YouTube is unsustainable without stuff tons of money, since they centralize all their videos. So, if I may.
BITCHUTE. FFS.
if you don't like the content there, make some better content to push it out. BITCHUTE is meritocratic.