I felt like he was very up front about how the current system, as unfriendly to users as it is, is what has made it possible for him to make a living doing what he loves to do. He even comes out at the end and says if big companies can't figure out a post-advertising business model, they'll likely die off, and that means he and people like him are out of a job, 'and that's probably the best scenario for users.' Both ideas — that ad-funded internet ruined the internet, and that ad-funded internet allowed him and thousands of people like him to make a living on that internet — can be true at the exact same time.

To be fair, I think his point is pretty clear: No ad based content means potentially no more "influencers" or content creators, but with the up side that the internet would become healthier. He's basically acknowledging that his whole job is sustained by a business model that's not entirely healthy for the internet despite being entirely dependent on it.