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I assume because they haven’t been able to fully test them yet. Better to offer no app than a broken one.

Particularly when the website is working quite well already.

…unless you want to watch offline. Say, for example, on a plane.

The YouTube web app allows you to download videos you might want to watch offline. Not sure about the other apps, but it's easy. So, no need for an app there.

Not in Safari you can't.

Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Opera only.

Either Google only built it to use Widevine (which Safari doesn't support) or Safari's limitations on the amount of data that can be stored make it too unreliable to roll out to customers.

So, it's still an Apple problem.

See above; this app sadly won't be available.

You're implying native app. Previous comment said (browser) web app. Not sure who is correct on feature support, but you're cross talking on the product SKU.

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