I completely agree with this article. The new layout is absolutely not useful. There isn't even an easyway to get to the new videos put out by other people. It works OK for managing my subscriptions but finding new content and people just doesn't work with this layout. With the last few changes youtube has gotten increasingly unusable and my amount of time spent on the site has gone down atleast 90%. If others follow that trend then that can't be good for youtube
I used to log on and get addicted to watching things that came up in suggested channels/videos, now I don't really learn about any new channels unless I go about deliberately searching for them. Bummer.