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
Considering all the changes they have made to the site lately it's lot they're TRYING to kill YouTube. I, for some reason, went through replies for 10 minutes and not one of them supported this decision...