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
Then why make it mandatory, and make everyone else on the platform have to go through with this thing that just doesn't make sense and bothers people. If ya want to add in an OPTION then cool, but... mandatory? For something like this (and plenty of other things).. I don't get it