absolutely, the only draw for content creators is the money they can make on youtube, which means people intersted in making money are more likely to use it and their content is obviously biased towards profit building. Any other platform can easily recreate a sane profit sharing program for creators, eventually it might become youtube, but in the meantime we can all enjoy it.

does this affect the ip range blockers. I thought about getting one of those, but youtube will probably find a way to cook ads into regular content, but we have AI now…

Not sure if it was the first, but PHP still beats a lot of other “platforms/framework” because thats what some of these items on the list are in terms of ease of embedding code directly into what you see what you get frontend code (HTML). It inserts backend code into HTML like javascript and that was very convenient and easy to learn, still easier than figuring out some of these platforms different templating shortcodes, that and its constant development and community support. I used to live on the PHP docs comments… it was a great community.

django and flask are python btw and people wanted to learn python or perl from like 15 years ago, the popularity of python 2 and its “Issues” led to robust dev on python 3, not to mention it being a default for many linux distros since a long time ago