And they took away the +/- 15 seconds buttons, which are much much better for skipping around long videos than the scrubber is.
Mystery meat navigation is probably the worst paradigm in all of us. Even icons with stupid, but distinguishable icons is better.
Although the mobile version is unconscionably awful, I almost always have to guess at what the controls do and avoid opening the app.
But if you:
1) go to shitty-fullscreen
2) hit picture-in-picture
3) go back to fullscreen
4) close fullscreen back to normal view
5) pinch-outward to zoom
Dear Googlers reading this: you may be tempted to go out of your way to fuck it up further and remove this workaround. Pretty please don't? Thanks.
I think the reason they do this is because the standard media player allows for picture in picture and background playback.