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>>jayden+(OP)
Thank you for writing this post! I opened youtube a few days ago to this as well. On a 24" 1440p monitor its ridiculous. It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this. Thank you again for writing this post. After searching it seems like they've been "testing" this in segments for a while now.

As a result I installed the "Control Panel for Youtube" chrome plugin and Im able to fix it back to 6 videos per row. I also found I could make shorts play in the traditional youtube player by default - which is an added relief.

>>InMice+99
You assume the UX team has any say in any of this.

Some of the revelations from the various lawsuits against Google by the US and other governments over the years have been about this.

The company replaced leaders who cared about users with leaders who cared about revenue optimization and those leaders changed the direction of the company to what we all see in all of their products these days.

>>gorbac+hQ
Their design/UX team 100% had a hand in it. Just look at Google's design blog, it's complete dogshit.