YouTube tab becomes unresponsive after a while

Late update: the issue went away on its own (maybe because of a browser update?).

I did disable hardware acceleration on my PC and the issue didn’t happen anymore after that, however I kept it enabled on my laptop and the issue went away on it as well, without my doing anything. I didn’t make any other changes to Brave on either device.

So, while I don’t have a clear answer about hardware acceleration, the issue went away.