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
Why would you do this? Streamlining the look and feel of your platform is one thing, but retroactively choosing to get rid of actual useful features (the api; live) in exchange for more poorly designed solutions (creator studio, which is delayed) is not your job as a platform.