It's fine that you disagree. Would be boring talking about it if we were all on the same page right?
I was not trying to tell you that you were wrong, hopefully it didn't come across like that!
Concerning your first response:
Sure, but that's the technical side of things, which (imo) is the less important part of the term quality entertainment. I always consider quality, because I personally care about how my stuff looks. If my channel looks good and my videos are recorded in 4k 60 FPS, that makes me happy. It gives me just a tad bit more pride in my videos. Do other people give a damn about it? Not if it's not an entertaining video. So for those people it's not quality entertainment. It's just a high resolution video.
Concerning your shady practices response:
I care about shady practices if they hurt me yes. You are absolutely right about that. If somebody took advantage of me, I would care. Here's the thing though: maybe I don't feel taken advantage of as quickly as somebody else. That makes shady practices a pretty subjective term again. In your openingpost you mention begging for likes and subs, misleading thumbnails, simplistic titles and women using their sex appeal. I honestly could not care less about those practices. Somebody else could feel taken advantage off in that same scenario though. For that person it's a hardcore unforgivable shady practice. For me it's more forgivable because I don't give it the same emotional value.
Concerning the last part of your response.
I agree fully up to the objective individual part. People can judge a video and say ''it's well put together'' or ''You can tell that there is production quality there''. So sure, people can tell the difference between good and bad in that sense. But again: if they are not interested in the video itself, the actual 10 minutes of content that you are showing, it will not be quality entertainment for them and therefore they will value it less than that weird cat video that was recorded with a phone at 420p, but made them laugh for 10 minutes straight. Pretty subjective in my book.
I'm quite the realist too if I say so myself. Does not stop us from having different opinions! Interesting topic though. Thanks for starting it!