Creator features like live streams, custom URLs, scheduled uploads (and many others!) are not going away with the YouTube Partner Program update. We just updated our Help Center to clearly outline this info (thanks for the suggestion!): https://goo.gl/mAUaMj https://twitter.com/paragraph_8/status/953663437065936897 …
Yes. Weed out all the crappy accounts that just bandwagon for the sake of money. It's about time. I think the system suffered enough abuse. 