It did work very well for YouTube. YouTube rewards a very particular kind & style of content, and YouTubers that strayed away from that style were punished by the YouTube algorithms.
The difference on Hive is that instead of being bullied by the platform itself to conform, you are bullied by its largest stakeholders. So there is an opportunity for a reform but likely only through enough stakeholders taking the opposite stance.
hence my original post.
1 stakeholder