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
But, why? Also why not just make it an option. It seems like it'd be easy as sin to do rather than force something for "reasons" and "feedback". Come on guys. I know you can do better than that.