Maybe I'm just a malcontent, but for me this begs the question: couldn't this be used in reverse as activism?
Like, if enough people used enough fake accounts and started relentlessly submitting takedown requests on the biggest channels making the most revenue, not only would YouTube start to see the revenue issue, but the big channels would start making noise. Go after one troll sending the requests, another one takes its place. Seems like it would force YouTube to at least reconcile with this particular flaw in the system.
Sue the troll?? Good luck finding them. How would you even begin? A ProtonMail email address? No way.
Sue YouTube?? Again, no way.
Until either YouTube or the US Congress thinks this is a large enough problem to deal with, it's not going away.