Ditch the YouTubers. Use your eyes like John Layton said above, and work at it.
None of these gadgets, calibrations or systems are going to give you good prints without you working on your prints, doing test strips, work prints etc. There’s no way around that unless you look at a mediocre print and convince yourself it’s good because you used some kind of system (that sort of bias/delusion is very common in film/darkroom photography).
You make great prints with or without any of this stuff if you work at it and are good at it. And you make crap prints with or without any of this stuff if you don’t work at it and aren’t good at it.
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