While many will complain and there had been some reasonable cases for dislike counts (they only remove the counts not the dislikes!) I think this kinda makes se

While many will complain and there had been some reasonable cases for dislike counts (they only remove the counts not the dislikes!) I think this kinda makes sense. The large majority of "productive"/"fair" video engagement is pretty much independent of the dislike *counts*. It still matters to be able to dislike as a feedback function but they are not removing this (for now at least.).