What the article doesn't mention is that YouTube gets to decide what part of the money goes to what kind of content. Of the $10, $4.50 goes directly to YT, and $5.50 is divided among the people you watched. YouTube can totally decide to divide it unevenly if they want to. And if they don't cooperate...

creators are required to participate in the subscription offering, or every video on their channels will be set to private