Obviously the goal is to distract people with something that they'll click on, rather than to help them find what they are looking for. Very frustrating.
It's the "news feed-ification" of search.
I can see the future of ChatGPT-like search working like the free tier of Pandora. If you search for something, you’re given results like it but not the actual thing you looked up.
Results you want will be paywalled behind subscriptions.
You could just go to the bottom and work upwards.
Would Bb tedious with a lot of videos but it's still trivial to make a playlist in whatever order you wish.
What you want many times is the reverse, which is not possible anymore. For any channel with tons of videos, you would just default to not bother with watching everything.
If the flow reversal is so bothersome it's possible to put it into a playlist.
If you have crappy internet, yes it will give you lower resolution as the resolution is dynamically adjusted unless you specify otherwise.
There's so much FUD out there now that it's cool to hate on Google.