I agree that the complete lack of control over your own server is ridiculous but I feel that you ' re reading far too much into the fact that one word was used by two different people . It ' s not like consistent is some super obscure word . In fact I ' ve heard the phrase consistent user experience get tossed around many , many times in software and web development over the years in companies I ' ve worked for before youtube was even a thing . I ' m sure that the feedback from youtubers with a large following is listened too but thinking that a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue at stake is going to make decisions based on one persons opinion that doesn ' t even work for the company is way too much of a stretch . Companies like to reduce work to support a product as much as possible and I don ' t think server rental was ever a huge revenue generator . Not having people complaining about the odd rouge admin or having to monitor them at all by making the servers have only basic options could easily be a decision they arrived at internally and have nothing to do with levelcap or anyone else ' s opinion at all .