It sounds like the only concern you have with code is its bugginess, which is short sights. This is unfortunately better documented code than stuff I've seen in production. Obviously no one should do this, but let's not act like there's no benefit
The word "theory" has definitions outside of the context of the scientific process, and it's pretty obvious that MatPat was not doing anything scientific in his videos. I don't understand the concern here
A big issue is that places don't want to share a link to an independently verifiable video, they want you to load a copy of it from their website/app.
Exactly. This "solution" doesn't take into account how people actually use the Internet. Unless we expect billions of people to change their behavior, this is just a pointless comment.
Will we also have to go to a time where we'll have to buy physical newspapers so that journalists can make a living? Or do we expect them to also share information just for the sake of sharing information?
What's a better alternative? I was a big fan of Teams back when I worked with an org that used it