I like Maiorianus as a channel. I discovered it while I was on vacation and binged most of the videos released to this point. This last video is pretty good obviously.
There is also a video emphasizing that the real "collapse of Rome" for the city of Rome anyway, was during the period between 530-600, not 476.
According to Maiorianus, Rome could have gone the way of Medieval China had the Eastern Roman Empire tried to mend fences with the Goths over some high profile executions in the 520s. There could have been a situation where Justianian still took control back over Carthage and Tingus, but let Visigoths and Ostrogoths unite, as Theoderic intended, and form a German dynasty of Rome in the same way that the Chinese kept their nation united by accepting the Qing dynasty until a native dynasty could retake the throne.
Maybe there would have been a German Roman Empire and a Greek Roman Empire. Which, actually, is kind of what happened in real life but maybe in a closer relationship and without the infighting and wholesale destruction of society, the two empires wouldn't have been reduced to a 50-50 combination of unclaimed territory and portion of the Northern frontier in the West and Greece and Western Asia minor in the East.
The Italic wars were a mistake.