I honestly don't mind the difference, only because i always jump on any new social media site lol.
The "adblocker idea" this is an awesome idea, yeah YouTubers will take a hit, but YouTubers, particularly the big, have influence that they don't use. If YouTubers, aren't going to fight for youtube then the community needs to.Every protest hurts someone, every fight is a struggle, this may not be a big thing in the general scheme, but something needs to be done. Just imagine if the top 20 Youtubers, didn't upload for 2 weeks, in protest....nevermind in theory that saves youtube money lol.
Google keeps trying to duplicate Facebook if you notice, the Channel one design resembles the timeline layout and so do the google + pages. I think someone at google, is like if we make it look similar to Facebook, maybe they will come over here. Except they forgot to make it simplistic like Facebook, whose Grandmother is using Google+? People who use social media everyday barely know how to use the site.
Amazon is trying to take on YouTube and the only thing i see, is Google opening the door for them. If amazon released their site today, Youtube might actually have some trouble.