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 …
I'm wondering if they should offer an "opt out" option, and pay anyone who doesn't want to keep making content after these changes what they have already earned. Also, here is the link to the video I made on this topic if you want to take a look: https://youtu.be/GlJlxp5Mjhg