Even right now the translate button on YouTube is still broken, it doesn't depend of the languages of your account but on an inaccessible list somewhere.

You can have your translate button language different than your account language. (Which is the case for my account)

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cubefox 6 days ago | parent [-]

I think it has to do with the fact that YouTube basically never had serious competitors except in the very early days. The only semi-competition is now TikTok, which they copied with YouTube Shorts. But their regular video business has been completely unchallenged for 15 years. In an environment without competition, efficiency and effectiveness of internal decision making can easily degrade over time.

	▲	xp84 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yep and that also explains why YouTube's comments section is the biggest dumpster fire of outright scams I've ever seen: why would they care?