I am completely different, but agree with the sentiment.
I was one of his first 10k subs from his first video. His cubano video solidified me as a day 1 viewer.
Literally since the creation of the “babish universe” or whatever MCU franchise parody it was, it just took a nosedive in quality (production quality didn’t change of course). Like there are only so many movie foods you can do, and I get why he branched out for sure, and Basics with babish was quite decent for a while.
I just think even a few years ago it became much more corporate and more of a “cooking content generation” channel and less of someone cooking and teaching in an entertaining way. It just feels completely different.