If Ethan is a lolcow than all of YouTube as a company is a a megacow. Demonetization and new youtube ideals have driven creators like H3 to other mediums. The podcast most likely brings in waaaay more money than 2-3 videos that takes 2 months to make only to get adpocalypsed because Ethan is in his underwear. The lolsuit from Hossboss probably killed their drive to roast and be creative as well.
Being H3 probably isn't as easy as it was. At one point, in their peak, they were sort of the Internet cringe police, back when nobody knew H3 was roasting them, but now you have creators trying to not get seen by H3 or any one else, and you have the polar opposite, where creators are going all out to get seen by "content cops" and no "content cop" is giving them a grain of attention.
The mobile game was a really bad idea. Just 100%.
Honestly, h3 doesn't need to apologize for anything (besides the mobile game). Youtube is a cesspool of mis-managed information in this day and age. Im surprised they havent collaborated with other YTs affected by adpocalypse and made a new video service.