Considered it, but I think I'd get even more burnt out if I had to rely on YouTube to survive and making videos every day was an absolute necessity.

All major creators are uploading YT shorts also now.

How’s the mechanics for it? Have you considered starting from there?

I do post shorts, and some of them have done pretty well. However, the number of views needed to make serious money with those is insane even compared to normal videos, and it's a completely different audience to the rest of the site. Additionally, given you can't add custom thumbnails for them and the way the algorithm works there is wildly inconsistent (seen some people get like, a hundred views from one short and a hundred thousand from the next one), it's a very risky game to put too much work into.