Personally, this will mean less youtube for me. It's not a big enough painpoint for me to pay for. I'd consider paying for an entirely ad-free youtube, but not for a paywall on some content. I'm not sure how well content creators will do behind a paywall. It seems to put them at a major disadvantage.
I got a free year-long subscription to Vessel, which essentially works like the premium ad free option that youtube is talking about, and I basically never use it. It's not Better enough for me to want to pay for it, or even for me to use it instead of youtube as it stands, even though some of the creators I follow release videos a week to a month earlier on that platform. My attraction to youtube is that it is free content which I can choose to support by whitelisting channels on adblock. I don't care about watching ads for content that I support.
Yeah. I feel the same way. While I like shows like Regular Car Reviews and Roadkill, I don't like them enough to feel compelled to pay money. Likewise, there are other avenues of finding and listening to music as well, many of them just as good if not arguably better. Chances are the only reason why Youtube is such a big music streaming service is just because it's there and it has so many other offerings all under one roof. If the whole paywall thing becomes a mess, I wouldn't think twice about just walking away.