Google's youtube group has long been the source of much fsckery. They really don't seem to understand that every time they mess with the site, people's livelihoods are on the line. Subscription is now more as suggestion to the algorithm than a command? A couple thousand people just got screwed. Channels like ChannelAwesome and others get their monetization disabled for weeks with no explanation? Doug Walker, and a host of others, just lost a good chunk of income. And most recently, The Purge has just knocked thousands of channels back hundreds of thousands of subs, with many people unsubbed for no goddamn reason, with barely a comment from youtube HQ. Do they even care anymore?
And if they can't keep the core of their service working, is it any wonder that they screw up an app that they probably aren't focusing that many resources on?