Lol, youtube-dl exists purely because it's userbase is small enough that it's impact on Google's revenues is less than it would impact CDN efficiency to kill it

Lol, youtube-dl exists purely because it's userbase is small enough that it's impact on Google's revenues is less than it would impact CDN efficiency to kill it. If that were to change (either because CDN efficiency improves so that post encryption ad-insertion is cheap, which will happen eventually or youtube-dl's user base increases) then Google can implement Widevine on everything and it'll be useless.