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You've replaced one misconception with another

>>My thought of polyrhythms originally involved a drummer playing two distinctly different rhythms with each hand **independently**.... I took the definition literally.
But as I was watching examples of "polyrhythms" on YouTube, it turns out that's not how it's done. My presumption was a misconception.<<

No, your initial presumption was correct, albeit limited to just one type of polyrhythm. It is YouTube that has misinformed you.

>>Polyrhythms in actuality are an integrated beat, using sub-beats to create the illusion of muliple rhythms, by accentuating the correct beats. The common beat is very fast, to enable the creation of multiple sub-beats.<<

And that's another type of polyrhythm. But not the only type. The only generalization one can make about polyrhythms is that they involve 2 or more ("poly" = multiple) rhythms simultaneously.

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