I would bet that this convo happened around the summer 2018 before they came up with the lawyer explanation they use now
Why cant you admit this @teamyoutube, that the ESSENCE of demonetized videos not being recommended is true not matter how its achievedhttps://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1174439009923325953 …
The only reason i can think of is that they dont want to have to really fix the system to stop flagging the little things and by accident. If they did say it publicly creators would be more often angry about a yellow sign. So basically my theory is like everything else. Lazy.