I think you have it backwards, the other video was using fake likes to avoid having to improve their quality to get an equal number of eyeballs.
Overall, it's bad for everyone if someone can create fraudulent views: us, other companies, and most importantly, consumers.
> taking that time to improve your competing product to make it better.
Took less than 3 minutes to do the math and send the report. I'm a fast developer, but I can't improve our product that fast :-)