[JoshCole]

Quality is a function of effort. Effort has a cost. The typical cost for high quality is high effort.

A content creator producing quality content has spent a lot of money in order to produce the high quality content. How much? Estimates from YouTube creators who are currently in the top creators get us numbers like $25,000-$1,000,000 per video. If they do not reliably make more than that much from trying to produce at that quality, they cannot survive while doing so.

So a larger problem than content discovery is that by default people producing quality content will die.