On one hand, I could say it's not necessarily a bad thing if channels can secure funding for years to come to keep producing great stuff. But on the other hand, people strangely just straight up keep forgetting what happened to Rooster Teeth and a few other big names of the past. Money can make channels die with a whimper.

Rooster Teeth and Donut come to mind. It's hard to keep up with YouTube's upload frequency demands, and the ones that I know are fully independent like Sarah-n-tuned work 7 days a week. It's rough.

Michael Burns creator of Wisecrack eventually got fired from his own channel because of this sort of arrangement.

I don't watch the big channels. It's the same mass media, broad interest crap TV used to air.

I'm happy that smaller channels, and channels with literally one person, like Dale Philip, are still able to make a living on YouTube.

I think Ms. Rachel is still independent.

Astrum
Coco Melon
Colin and Samir
Donut Media
Dude Perfect
Economics Explained
Fern
Fireship
Futurism
History Hits
Mentor
Pilot
Simple History
Task and Purpose
The Drive
The Theorists
Veritasium

...That we know of

Edit: Alphabetical order

Assuming the creators go into these deals eyes open I can see the appeal of making an exit from the grind. It's hard to spin up a business outside of the platforms without access to resources or other income. One person bands will burn out trying to manage merch, algorithm optimisation and content generation at the same time.

I can think of a few channels that have gone interdependent but I'm sure they get income from other places as well.

I’ve had enough of this Brutalmoose slander! He will never sell out!

I know only one of those and do not like it. So no, absolutely no. Stop watching trash, there is so much good stuff!