Imho, the real outrage should be about Google/YouTube being so asymmetric (easy to upload, difficult to download). But I guess people consider this an impossible battle.
Easy download would directly hurt engagement and ad revenue, with not much upside. Hosting video is costly and their only line of revenue is ads via repeated site visits .
One could argue that simply visiting the (video-) page downloads the media, and therefore download is much easier than upload any way you look at it - but i suppose you mean "a way to save the actual file that is easily understandable to laymen", and I'd support your claim.