LTT is incredibly corporate (+ a private jet??), Mrwhosetheboss is super AI-pilled (generated “hand painted” wallpaper of him and wife? Really?), Marques has his own controversies (e.g. exceeding highway speeds in a school zone, wallpaper app cashgrab, etc. + he does not seem to have any concept of value or budget), Gamers Nexus has their own problems (e.g. they claimed how Matrix could be Israeli spyware, with the source being a poorly received Reddit comment), etc.
Wendell from Level1Techs is still quite good and relatively out of controversy, perhaps because he doesn’t target a general audience like the above? Veronica Explains (Linux and adjacent topics) and Jeff Geerling (primarily self-hosting and networking bits) are also great in their niches. Salem Techspurts (the greatest technician to ever live) and Hugh Jeffreys both cover topics relating to right to repair and they make interesting videos around vintage electronics as well!
Are there any other good tech creators that are not super corporate, not AI-pilled, and outside of controversy?
GamersNexus’ team pointed to multiple areas of concerns with various software… The source was literally in the video and you can see donations and contributions on the Matrix project page. Their team also does anti-corpo content and is more tech journalism after the AI boom. In fact, out of all the ones you listed you liked, he is the most anti AI and anti Big Tech company channel, with rossman being a close 2nd but that depends what about AI you don’t like.
Wendal also likes AI, but self hosted style instead of big corpo. He and Steve do videos together if you really paid attention.
If you like technicians with right to repair and ownership, the rossman is your man.
According to who you seem to side with, controversy is whoever you don’t like (large channels), and controversy free is anyone you do (small channels)… Just let the algorithms help you out if you want outrage to be the basis for your consumption.