Not sure what you're really getting at here. There are so many people who do the (yes, tedious) work of captioning videos from people they appreciate because th

Not sure what you're really getting at here. There are so many people who do the (yes, tedious) work of captioning videos from people they appreciate because there was a button right there. Some of those people may go on to find a third party caption editing package, and try to contact the content creator and coach them through uploading the subtitles... But isn't it obvious that this is going to reduce the aggregate quality of captions on YouTube? The process before was straightforward: a community member would author captions and submit them to the producer, the producer would choose whether to approve them right there on YouTube's site; the new workflow involves email, forms, files, and community members who are motivated to go out of their way to figure out how to create and communicate YouTube-compatible captions that will now be less likely to be published even if they are high quality.