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
please just make this optional, you could even make it abbreviated by default but I think most people value being able to see the exact number of subscribers they have, I don't see how taking that choice away from them is going to improve things
