As for the comments etc, it’s social media, any video that’ gets served outside of a channels core audience is going to be a dumpster fire and basically impossible to moderate.
No one has ‘cracked’ this issue, forums like this don’t scale, Reddit is horrible for facilitating discussion, stuff like YouTube comments is basically a feedback form for the channel owner.
Sure no one has "cracked" this issue but both managing and searching your own comments - where you even get thrown out of the YT ecosystem into some random Google pages, and managing channel comments is a hideous, dated and limited experience.
Pretty much anything outside of the core player feels like an afterthought, often fragmented in approach, dated in functionality and often feels like someone got it basically working then abandoned it - so it makes a hard sell for the kind of money they want for the full Premium.
but ostensibly it is being introduced in places which don't have free toilet paper in public toilets, etc. in the first place, though that itself is pretty deplorable.