Oh yeah, for the subset of content that is "watch an expert do a thing" the Web has become extremely good. Nothing before touches it. In part I think it's remai

Oh yeah, for the subset of content that is "watch an expert do a thing" the Web has become extremely good. Nothing before touches it. In part I think it's remained so because almost all the content is on one site—there's no web search involved in finding it at all, you just search Youtube (which is owned by the main company that might help you find videos on other sites). If Google'd found a way to reward putting academic & deep cultural-knowledge material on a platform they owned such that they had a near-monopoly, perhaps that site would be good. The web at-large might remain basically useless for it (or, probably, even worse, as everyone went to that single platform) such that it depends on one's perspective whether it's the Web delivering value or just Google's platform that could be served just about any damn way at this point (if they decided to transition over to a new non-Web protocol just for Youtube and put it in Chrome they might well succeed in forcing everyone else to adopt it)