Abbreviated public subscriber counts are gradually rolling out starting next week. We heard a lot of feedback from the community following our announcement in May – we’ve updated our original post with more info here → https://yt.be/help/LF4J
what this sounds like to me: "We know you don't like this, and don't have anything positive to say about it So we're ignoring you and just giving you more information about it and hoping you'll stop giving a shit"