“Autoplay” and YouTube case in point:

- Autoplay transitioned to a per-device setting… suddenly default-on on every new device you log in to.

- Watching a video with computer-to-TV account connection? Automatic “TV queue,” a concept absent from the TV app, with incomprehensible behavior for how it’s used, so now videos are auto-played anyway.

- Watching a video from a playlist? Autoplay cannot be turned off.

Is it simply bad/absent product management and product design? Or is it actively user-hostile decisions meant to prop up view numbers and continue to have the users hooked on YouTube?