I think there has been a major culture shift. YouTube used to prioritize the subscriber feed where you curated your own content. Now it is the home feed where it is fed by algorithm. Shorts seems to be an extension of this where it is pretty much non stop algorithmic feed. If you were used to the old way the new way seems strange, but if not I guess the new way is more intuitive? I couldn’t say

Check the github for feature requests. If it isn’t there then feel free to add it. The devs are doing all they can and honestly it has been amazing how well they have handled a massive influx of users

I think this is going to be a generational divide. Most of my millennial friends will insist on landscape while zoomers tend to default to portrait.