Allen, you need to decide "why" you want to make YouTube videos, and who your intended audience is.
I suspect you are falling into a trap I fall into myself.
When I do YouTube videos, I try to make a video of the quality I would want to watch. That's a mistake, because I am not my target audience.
Like you, I can't stand videos where people just talk because they like the sound of their own voice. They yak and yak and yak, but never (or rarely) say anything of value. I personally would be ashamed to post a video of the quality that I often see on YouTube.
But do you know what's crazy? People LOVE the garbage videos. They don't care about the editing. They don't care about it looking professional. (I assume these same viewers are the same people who love reality TV, which I also consider to be garbage.)
If you want to have successful videos on YouTube, the 2 big things are that you need to be able to connect to your subscribers, and you need to produce videos regularly. That's it. You can have unedited amateur videos of poor quality, spewing gobs of BS, giving bad advice, be incapable of keeping bees alive, etc. and you will be popular if you can connect with people and put out videos regularly.
I'm an INTJ personality. The N means I am idea oriented. About 80% of the population are S types, who are object oriented. I have a difficult time connecting with these people. I can try to edit my videos to make them as professional looking as I can, filled with quality info, etc. and I still have a difficult time connecting with people. I try to make a video that I would want to watch, even though the audience which watches my videos are looking for different things from the videos.
You DO NOT need to edit videos (or minimal editing) on YouTube. People LOVE the reality aspect of unedited videos.
Force yourself to watch a few videos from this guy. Almost 3.5 million total views. He must know what he is talking about, and produce quality videos, right?
https://www.youtube.com/user/fineshooter/videos
He's such a successful commercial beekeeper that he has to resort to begging viewers to give him financial donations.
Personally, I don't know why anyone watches his videos. I can understand people watching a few at first, until they realize the BS. (And I can understand people watching his videos to try to learn tricks for making better videos ourselves...but I have yet to discover why folks like his videos, or how I can successfully incorporate idiocy and stupidity into my videos.) But people can't get enough of his videos. I think he does a great dis-service to beekeeping by spreading pure BS. The quality of many of his videos are so amateurish it isn't funny. Some videos leave you scratching your head wondering what the point of the video was.
Based upon what I have earned by making YouTube videos, I would estimate that he has made a minimum of $6,000-$7,000 (and probably closer to $10K) for the videos.
So you tell me why he produces these videos...
He wants to produce entertaining videos?
He wants to produce education beekeeping videos?
He's a retired "commercial" beekeeper who wants to share his "wisdom"?
He wants to convince every 2 hive hobbyist to pay for his classes so they can become commercial beekeepers like him too?
He wants to show the world how his incredibly slow helpers are actually working at a commercial beekeeping pace?
He just likes to hear himself talk? (And laughs all the way to the bank.)