Every single guide on YouTube tells beginners: "Go subscribe to Photoshop, learn the pen tool, and spend three hours cutting out your hair." That is the quickest way to burn out before you even post your third video.
I used to fire up heavy desktop editors every Tuesday evening just to stick some bright yellow text over a frozen video frame. My laptop fan would scream, the program took two minutes to boot, and half the time it crashed right as I was exporting.
Over seventy percent of your viewers are scrolling on their phones. They don't care about subtle gradients. They care if they can tell what the picture shows and read the giant words in half a second.