I consider YouTube (or rather, video in general) a fantastic platform for showcasing something cool, demonstrating what it can do, and even demonstrating how to drive a piece of software - but for actual technical learning I loathe the video format - it's so hard to skim, re-read, pause, recap and digest at your own speed.
The best compromise seems to be webpages with readable technical info and animated video illustrations - such as the one posted here yesterday about how radio works.
For some things there is a lot of nuance lost in just writing. The unknowm unknowns.
There has been a lot of times where I am showing someone new to my field something and they stop me before I get to what I thought was the "educational" point and ask what I just did.
Video can portray that pretty well because the information is there for you to see, with a schematic or write-up if the author didn't put it there the information isn't there.
I’m having trouble wrapping my head around how / why you’d use youtube to present analog electrical engineering formulas and pin out diagrams instead of using latex or a diagram.