Fill in the blank: “If I could change one thing about YouTube, it would be ____”

The ability to re-upload a video without it losing the URL. This means if you made a mistake it can be corrected. Vimeo does this don’t understand why YouTube doesn’t implement this feature.

There's so many ways people could take advantage of this in terrible ways. That said, it seems like it could be a feature that gets unlocked if you meet certain criteria, channel age, monetization, copyright claims etc

Not really, they could show a tab that displays the history of all the edits. People can go back and watch to see what changed and in turn add more watch time benefiting the algorithm.

I agree it’s a solvable problem. YouTube scans every frame and every note. They can easily compare old to new, permit xx% change, permit change based on channel history, flag for human review questionable changes. And let us at LEAST change the video before it’s ever been public.