As a rookie/indie dev/hobbist, are the videos from the GDC Vault worth paying the yearly subscription fee? Will I learn anything worth the roughly~$500 fee?

I know you can get access for free with certain purchased passes to the GDC event, but I don't feel I'm at the level to yet attend.

I know some of the videos are up on a youtube channel. I've seen a few and have learned a bit

My fear is that they've already put the _good_ videos from the Vault onto youtube, and paying for full access would leave me with out-dated and irrelevant videos.

edit: removed redundant comment

I tend to find myself in the same predicament as you. There are usually 3-8 videos a year that I want to watch from GDC Vault , previously I wanted to get the Destiny GDC Vault Videos , which luckily have both been released for free. While I learned a bit from one of them, I definitely would of been disappointed if I spend $500.. While I believe it's important to support things you want, I still haven't personally seen enough from the videos released for me to validate spending that much money on the ones behind a pay wall.

I would say they're not worth it.