TheStoneMan

No. Again, nothing is stopping you from hoping that one day you can live off of YouTube. This change will not stop you from making a living - because literally no-one with less than 1k subs is making a living from YouTube.

Again, the issue is not making a living, it's being noticed so that your channel can grow and see more and more people enjoying your content. You're missing the point here completely and focusing on the money, just like YouTube themselves.

Yeah... You can get noticed without ads. Even if your video has ads, if it is only getting a handful of views it is not getting promoted by YouTube. This is a false idea that every single monetized video somehow is advertised. I wish it were true, but it isn't.

I'm aware that you can, but YouTube itself will not recommended them as often on the site because of the lack of ads. They make less money from ad-less videos so will always promote videos with ads enabled over those without. No monetisation = less ads = less revenue for YouTube

Your video WILL NOT be recommended regardless if it doesn't first have a few thousand views. Focus on getting those views, then you can worry about ad revenue.

I think you're misinterpreting what I mean by recommended. I'm talking about suggested videos at the end of a video or how highly it places in related searches. Not being monetised is going to push it further and further down the lists, and again, the revenue isn't the issue here

I'm well aware what you mean. And I'm saying that your video is never going to appear at the end of a video or in a general search with ten views. It doesn't matter how many mid-roll ads you stick in it.

I really don't think you are because you've missed the point. That's not what I'm disputing. I'm saying if both videos, uploaded roughly at the same time, same tags, same sized channels, one monetised and one not, YouTube's algorithm will ALWAYS prioritise the monetised video.