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and THIS is mostly due to internal corporate politics and bickering of proving your worth to X management higher up in charge (who reports to shareholders), it's why the UI also changes every 3 years or so on most sites; it's because the UX lead is justifying their payroll and playing internal company games.

Right now because debt is a little more expensive, we're in the money is getting squeezed cycle and adblockers are currently on the corporate agenda. Basically roll a d20 on whatever excuse any corporate entity wants to use for failure to pin it on users/market conditions, I'm surprised it took this long for youtube to crack down given that twitch.tv has already done a decent job