When you upload a video to YT, it's heavily compressed. Your pristine creation is converted 10 ways to Sunday, which then can be played back in a variety of formats, speeds, and platforms. Long before you even uploaded that video, for free, to give the world the chance to see your creative genius, you agreed to this process, by agreeing to Youtube's T&C's.

People may be upset, and I get that. But it's not like the videos were in their original format anyway. If you want to maintain perfect video fidelity, you wouldn't choose YouTube. You chose YouTube because it's the path of least resistance. You wanted massive reach and a dead simple monetization route.

People are upset by visible or audible compression just the same.

Exactly this. The only reason video works at all is because the machine is trying to make changes to it that it doesn't think humans will notice.

Compression doesnt put words in your mouth. Do you honestly think they're the same thing or are you just being pedantic on purpose?