Well I'm not saying I like it, but this is quite different. In the case of YouTube TV, the fact that you "recorded" something does not mean that it is now yours

Well I'm not saying I like it, but this is quite different. In the case of YouTube TV, the fact that you "recorded" something does not mean that it is now yours and that you "own" it. All it really means, I assume, is that you have so-to-speak bookmarked that show and perhaps received from Google a unique URI which enables you, so long as the show is available and you maintain your YouTube TV membership, to access that show. But it's still subject to all of the licensing terms related to that show as well as your ongoing membership to YouTube TV. You could not, for instance, sign up for YouTube TV and just record as many shows as you can get your hands on and expect that this means these recordings are now "yours" or that you now have access to all of these shows in perpetuity. In contrast, in the case of you recording something onto a VHS (assuming this is even legal), for someone to come into your house to scrub those tapes would amount to trespass, possibly theft, and other forms of illegal property destruction. So I would say it's quite different in several meaningful ways and that your hypothetical is pretty hyperbolic.