> In the past few days, I noticed a bug I could not keep ignoring. Sometimes YouTube would randomly skip back in time during soft reloads

FWIW I noticed this bug as well, I often listen to longform videos on youtube and it was very obvious something changed when you pull up half-finished videos it suddenly started skipping back when it didn't previously.

I view Google as too big of a faceless machine to bother investigating myself, but I'm happy someone did.