Maximum concurrent viewers for a given video could be a way to lower stress on YT servers, requiring less servers thus costing less to maintain, thus less ads/more money for creators, at least in a more rational and less greedy world.
If scheduled programming vs on demand was something that channel owners or users could pick for themselves it would be an apocalypse or a new golden age for YouTube.
Maximum concurrent viewers for a given video could be a way to lower stress on YT servers, requiring less servers thus costing less to maintain, thus less ads/more money for creators, at least in a more rational and less greedy world.
If scheduled programming vs on demand was something that channel owners or users could pick for themselves it would be an apocalypse or a new golden age for YouTube.
Not sure which, but it would sure be different.