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Well, it's moreso that decentralization fundamentally means that there's going to be a smaller audience for them to reach due to users being more spread out between instances in addition to the lack of ads and recommendation algorithms to spoonfeed their content to new viewers. Even if the UI/UX were more polished, IDK why they would prefer to use the Fediverse over significantly larger centralized services that basically cater to their use-case. The Fediverse is good for hobbyists and everyone else though, whom I happen to prefer for the most part.
With proper Federation the spread literally doesn't matter so no idea what you mean with that but I agree, the none sustaiable and unethical ad format won't be possible, no ads is something entirely different tho because sponsor segments and affiliate links would still work just as well. You are right that many wouldn't choose that path but I am sure a lot would do so if there was a good option, at leadt a lot of the ones I like to watch but currently Peertube is such a pain to use that not even I as geek and foss enthusiast do so! :(
The way that the ActivityPub protocol (this is the protocol that makes the Fediverse function) works is that it only pushes out content to instances that explicitly request it (a user follows another user/channel/community/etc, or the instance uses a relay), so the spread does matter and the ecosystem is kinda stuck with that until the underlying protocol is changed. I'd agree that a different protocol could remedy this, but realistically speaking I don't see AP getting swapped out for something else anytime soon.