Tbh, I’m always amazed anyone leaves them enabled. YouTube can be such a dumpster fire in the comments

You should apply to become their community manager. Seems like you want to make a difference. You should definitely contribute.

Probably because over time it would be inundated with people trolling them and begging them to stop adding useless, bloated or uncooked features as to justify funding or PR optics (‘Hey, lets add AI to everything!!1!1Eleven’) and just focus on squashing the thousands of outstanding bugs or valid requests, which would maybe attract more funding. This has been the ongoing, running meme for as long as I have been running an instance.