[manchmalscott]

YouTube premium recently added a “lite” tier. I don’t use YouTube music and I don’t watch shorts or music videos on YouTube, so I’m able to have the channels I watch get compensated without paying for what I perceive as unnecessary and non-core features of the platform.

Clearly such a thing is possible, and a company which insists it isn’t is fundamentally either uncreative or user hostile.

[Marsymars]

Maybe I perceive monetized videos on YouTube as an unnecessary and non-core feature - I'd like a tier where I only have access to non-monetized videos, but get the other perks of membership (background playback, etc.)

[eviks]

So what is it about subscription that makes this impossible? There are other factors that favor dumbed down user interfaces, but they are not unique to subscriptions

[Hikikomori]

You mean added it back, though not available in my country. Stopped paying for youtube when they removed it years ago.