So you can drop all that traffic and the users are unimpacted... So why not just always drop that traffic and don't even bother writing the code to implement those features that clearly nobody cares about?
Some of the things they mentioned were also user impacting, like not being able to select a video's language, but less critical. You obviously still want that feature, but it's less important than being able to watch at all.
"Clearly nobody cares about" - what? The whole point here is "people care most about video streaming" and less about the metadata etc that they lower in priority.