Glorious, a fellow asshole-empire tagger. Yeah I agree with your points here. It's already better than youtube but I'm sure once the ball gets rolling steem power will be abused to censor people. It's a big concern for me.
I tried watching one of your red pill video and it unfortunately would not buffer for me, even after waiting 5 minutes. The others seem fine though. I have no clue, but I guess it must be somehow related to the seeding of the video.
RE: Viability of Steem and DTube (My thoughts)