Just admit that you failed to show any real examples of user dissatisfaction. A certain minority are going to complain regardless of how good a product is.
How is that not real dissatisfaction? I cannot find a real survey because google never collected one.
That's because they don't care.
Sure the ones that complain are the minority but there are many many more that dislike the changes without actively complaining.
You dug around on the web for quite awhile (probably using Google search) and all you found were some forum posts from two years ago where a small group of users were complaining about page layout lol. There will always be people who reject change because they are stubbornly set in their ways and refuse to give something a chance. There are many more users such as myself who think the new layouts and log in system are actually improvements over the old.
That search took more then one minute to get all those links. I would hardly call that a while.
Improvement? LOL!
Lets see:
Its slower
Clunky
Useless suggestions all over the video page
Completely useless channel page now
As far as the side bar goes, it just wastes screen space. I will admit after upgrading monitors it isn't as big of deal but I would prefer it gone.
I even had a firefox extension to get rid of it and it no longer works.
Just because something is changed, does not make it automaticly an improvement. Thinking that is naive.
There aren't going to be mass boycotts of Google products because they are good products and the majority of people agree with me. People will stop using Google if they don't like the products as their is competition for every service Google offers with the exception of maybe YouTube.
They are marginal products and there are few alternative (a near monopoly)
with the exception of maybe YouTube.
That is a pretty big exception since video hosting is fairly important at this point.
You are particularly closed-minded. How someone can be against a CHOICE is beyond me.