Too bad the “bell icon” is algorithmically handled. Verified by 2 different YouTube reps I talked to. So no, not even pressing the bell icon is a guarantee anymore.https://twitter.com/teamyoutube/status/977335508434010112 …
If you’re going to have an occasional notifications option, make that the custom option, and make the all notifications option the default. Literally no one expects occasional notifications to be the default option.