Someone should tell them this isn’t the twentieth century anymore.

Yes, for you and me, this is useful information. But here is where I think, for less savvy users, even a blanket error would be really helpful, focusing on next steps the user can try.

Space bar not pausing / unpausing a video and skipping half way down the comments

Yes! That’s the other one I forgot to mention! 😆

Indeed, this is on desktop. Curiously, on mobile, I don’t really have a problem with YouTube, apart from the infuriating length and abundance of ads.

Good points… But it’s even more bizarre, if you think about it: apparently the only person to never have used the YouTube player, is… the guy who designed it? What the…? 🫤