I use the Youtube app on my old smart TV. One of the things that bothers me the most is navigation. Navigating the side bar makes every option load in its entirety as you scroll down it. Want to resume a video you already partially watched? You have to scroll to “Library” to get to your history. But you can’t just scroll there and get it over with, because just going down the menu means having to wait for every single page between “Home” and “Library” to load. What should be a quick, “click down four times, click right once, start video” becomes, “click down once, wait. Click again, wait. Click again, wait. Click again, wait…”

I see no reason why we can’t navigate the side menu without having shit load every time we click. If I wanted a preview of what’s available, I’d just choose that tab and go from there. If I’m trying to navigate to something specific I want to watch, it’s like YouTube goes out of their way to make it a pain in the ass.

After decades of stripping away info from videos? Tell me ain't so!

Yeah, I still have artists I like on the channel (social network effect, ugh), but I watch as the algorithm is trying to steer me away from them. It's frankly disgraceful.

I hate there that it's shoulder-to-shoulder with the videos so unless you use the scroll bar you get so much auto play