Those explication videos are product instructions. They can still be made available in the youtube channel of this brand (and for my bike, they were and I'm glad for them).
Yes youtube costs money to run. Selling your private data and attention shouldn't be an option.
So who should pay the bill? If you're the customer, that would be You, or no one if you consider that empty channel not to be worth it.
So you only get to see the bike tutorial if you have the money to pay for it. That widens the haves / have-nots gap; I'm not sure that's a desirable goal.
Yes youtube costs money to run. Selling your private data and attention shouldn't be an option. So who should pay the bill? If you're the customer, that would be You, or no one if you consider that empty channel not to be worth it.