Great for a weekend experiment, terrible for daily driver.
Older clients don’t preload comments, don’t keep the feed refreshing in background, and use older, less resource-intensive codecs (H.264 over VP9). youtube old version open
The old player had a smaller, non-intrusive overlay, a simple 240p–1080p quality menu (no ambiguous “Auto”), and a clean, non-sticky miniplayer. Great for a weekend experiment, terrible for daily driver
If you are a creator trying to open the old studio interface: Great for a weekend experiment