After over a week of trying to get a meeting with @TeamYouTube we finally have one scheduled for an hour from now. If you have any constructive feedback to share with them regarding the abbreviated subscriber numbers (via the api), reply to this tweet.
If they want to do it on their site go ahead, but keep the API to where people can see their Subscriber Milestones live. That's the one awesome part of YouTube that should be the hardest to fuck up.