Maybe you don't want to have who knows what ads forced into your content. Maybe you don't want your content to be forced into this demented "shorts" format with

Maybe you don't want to have who knows what ads forced into your content. Maybe you don't want your content to be forced into this demented "shorts" format without an option to disable it. Maybe you want more control over formatting (code snippets, embedded videos/images) and content placement. Maybe you don't want to fight the stupid copyright enforcement tools. Maybe you dislike the UI overall. Maybe you don't want interactions with your audience to happen over google platform, but more individually over e-mail. Maybe you want an ability to modify past content easily. Maybe you get your audience from outside youtube, anyway, so why send them to the youtube attention sucking vortex. Plenty of reasons why someone would care.