smm panels are useless. you can get the pefect retention and ctr, that dosent matter, youtube still will recommend to the people it thinks will like the video, those people are the factor of which a video will continue being pushed. youtube is tiktok now, whitehat and maybe some greyhat stuff is all that is needed. people that succeed with bots and automation are either using phone farms and using those accounts to subscribe to their channel and engage with their newest uploads or they have a custom made bot which basically does the same thing. other than that nothing will help your video. go whitehat itll save you alot of money, time and stress.