Its fucking trash.
They're trying to make one shitty video player on all platforms. Even though mobile already has the youtube app. On desktop its fucking garbage. All the videos have their bottoms cut off. Theater mode has been removed. Because you can no longer scroll. Instead of seeing comments, chat while streaming and video info including important information and links, they've hidden all of it. Instead you must now click on a comments button which brings up comments on the right side making the video player smaller. RUINING THEATER MODE.
WHAT STUPID FUCKING CUNTS THOUGHT THIS s*** LOOKED GOOD OR WAS NECESSARY!?
THERE IS ALREADY A YOUTUBE APP FOR MOBILE. STOP TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING A FUCKING TOUCHSCREEn. YOU STUPID CUNTS WILL NEVER KILL KEYBOARD AND MOUSE SO GET THE f*** OVER YOURSELVES AND PROGRAM ACCORDINGLY. CUNT FUCKS.
f*** you YouTube. This new UI looks like toy f*** you YouTube I fucking hate this s***. Why tf is there so much padding? It looks like a 5 year old made this UI.
I think they found this UI from the dumpster.
I can tell just from you describing this dumpster fire as "more refined" and elegant that you are young and have good eyes.
I'm only in my 30ies but my eyesight is bad and transparency while "refined" just makes it harder to see everything. Elegance is not an important design feature in a functional design interface. Functionality and efficiency are.
I just don't understand why the controls need to be larger? Why is it necessary for them to encroach on the video more? It's distracting.