Point is 99.9% of youtube content creators will never reach the milestone of becoming monetized as it keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Yes I understand that, hence why I chose the word "problematic" since even that 0.1 % of youtube is still (much) bigger than the entire user base of hive.

There are over 3 million creators globally who are monetized through the YouTube Partner Program (YPP).

This is the number given by Gemini, considering both are google products I guess the number is legit.