For me it depends a lot on what I want to learn. For some things (e.g. programming) text is much better.

For other things (e.g. repair a part on a bike) text requires images, to really be able to quickly grasp what one has to do.

Finally, for learning e.g. dance moves I really want a movie (or a live instructor).

So like usual "it depends".

Yeah, it definitely depends for me too, but getting the nuances right from a video wouldn't work for me at all, even in a thing like dancing. Live instructor is an entirely different proposition (you can choose to focus on the bits that you care about, move around to get a better view, etc.). And I can stop them and ask for them to repeat, slow down or split their movement into more granular "part-steps".

Videos are simply not that for me. Perhaps with actual 3D videos and improved tooling we might get there (eg. ability to zoom in on an instructor's hips in "infinite" resolution if you are having trouble following that particular bit of their motion).

And I mean, you can sure learn from a video, but I just find it harder. Eg. I can go look at dance or basketball moves and try to reconstruct them, but it's usually a couple of core points that need to be taken in to achieve them that are much easier to grasp when broken into fundamentals.

However, videos where the gist of the work is on the student, vs on the instructor, are much easier to make, which I believe is part of their popularity!