I'm about to lose my partnership on my main channel I got manually approved on back in early 2011. 7 years of an account in good standing removed from partnership because my animations, despite getting over 300k views last year, didn't get enough watchtime.
Yeah, screw them. At this point I hope a good alternative pops up and youtube devolves into the heap of just cancer channels that it's been trying to become for several years now.