Youtube seems to be being run by idiots? All their decisions I have been seeing over the last ~year all appear to me to be idiotic. But I dont know their business - anyone care to elucidate?
My preferred solution would be better filtering and abuse handling, but at the moment this feature is a very mixed bag at best.
"This feature was rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse so we’re removing them to focus on other creator tools. You can still use your own captions, automatic captions, and third-party tools and services."
That seems fair enough to me. Creators can still add captions, it's just viewers that can't add them without a 3rd party service.
Some people are arguing about a reduction in spam or abuse, but it might also be a liability issue (but I don't know how or why).