Creator features like live streams, custom URLs, scheduled uploads (and many others!) are not going away with the YouTube Partner Program update. We just updated our Help Center to clearly outline this info (thanks for the suggestion!): https://goo.gl/mAUaMj https://twitter.com/paragraph_8/status/953663437065936897 …
Yeah but when these smaller channel are going to reach the threshold you put, you will again change the YPP terms. So, better to boycott the platform and delete all videos that been uploaded. At least that's what I am thinking to do.