One of my favorite podcasts [1] is a great example of this. A friend recommended it to me and told me to start at the beginning (already a couple years of back catalog at that point). I almost stopped after the first few episodes, which were interesting but not very well produced.
The creator stuck with it though and the quality improved dramatically and pretty quickly.
Still, it's crazy how much video has improved in quality, and exploded in popularity, since just 2009 or 2013 ... damn.
I guess this is a little like early bloggers in the early 2000's who were already writers in other mediums.
The people who are really successful are the ones involved in the old paradigm (multiple TV shows in Rogan's case), AND who actually embrace the new paradigm.
The creator stuck with it though and the quality improved dramatically and pretty quickly.
[1] https://www.philosophizethis.org/