I'm not sure what your point is then because the list was meant as a list of high quality channels that touch on subjects that likely interest an HN audience. N

I'm not sure what your point is then because the list was meant as a list of high quality channels that touch on subjects that likely interest an HN audience. Not as "here are the ten least opinionated channels on YouTube". Being engaging is a requirement of being high quality. Someone who isn't engaging, even if their videos are very informative, will quickly lose his viewers. This is a problem because quality of the research isn't enough if nobody makes it to the end of the video. And no, once again, he doesn't compare apples to oranges. He shows how things can work. He shows the potential. His channel is essentially just an opinionated tour of how urban design works in the Netherlands. It's not like he says "Phoenix AZ should work exactly like Amsterdam and be designed exactly this way".