Read a good article about how the web has changed how tasks are undertaken in the internet age.
We no longer invent a new way to accomplish something, we simply check online and select the best way we find on ‘youtube’.
People may improve what they find online but gone are the days when hundreds of inventors try ‘building a better mousetrap’.
Today those ‘better mousetraps’ are never even imagined...we just use someone elses ideas instead of creating new ones.
Long term this new reality will not benefit humanity as a whole.
That's because what one person is trying to accomplish has very likely already been tried by thousands of others who've had the same issues/problems or whatever. The Internet is a fabulous teaching tool, much better than going to some school and listening to someone yap for an hour in person. Those days are coming to an end in regards to higher education.
Btw, a lot of those people on youtube doing tutorials etc, very likely did exactly what you described, they invented or figured out new ways to accomplish things and they put it to video.