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I agree but from google's perspective siloing shorts off into a separate app would have meant nobody using it and it dying in a year by forcing it into YouTube's regular algorithm they're forcing everyone in their captive audience to engage with them which makes the experience measurably worse but is nice for somebody whose job relies on metrics I'm sure