Jesus that's brutal but it works...
noctiswhole
joined 1 year ago
I mean, this was a very real issue for every random forum site back before the internet became consolidated. In some cases people would donate to keep the servers running, in other cases the ownership gets passed on to someone that could keep servers running. At least things are way cheaper to keep running nowadays.
I'm the exact same as you and I don't really enjoy plainly following tutorials. What might work for you is to keep doing what you're doing, and let that shape your growth.
Using your experience with the donut tutorial as an example, you went through the effort of doing something different, but all your textures are stretched out. You might ask a beginner 3d/blender community why, and they might tell you about how uv mapping and texturing works. You can take that information and follow up by watching a tutorial on texturing.
3d art is definitely hard to get into, and the biggest challenge when growing your skill is keeping your motivation and practicing as frequently as possible. Every issue you can see with your models is an opportunity to grow, and you can become amazing if you keep it up!
It's probably more to do with discoverability and monetization. I'm generalizing a ton, but I feel like there isn't even a ton of super useful YouTube tutorials outside of beginner content because that gets the most views.