I am genuinely dumbfounded why @TeamYouTube constantly has the urge to mess with or throw out perfectly good features. Why can't your website be good enough? Why do you always have to change things people like? I swear, it only gets worse from here
I should think something run by and funded by Google would have the means to do this in an non-intrusive way. Even Facebook is better about testing new features, and that should be taken as an insult.