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
You say this is for consistency, so why not make the unabbreviated version the consistent one? People like to have hard numbers (creators and subscribers alike). Why make an unnecessary change in a way that gives viewers LESS information?