No, it's an illustration of how hiring the best and brightest doesn't get you the cutting edge. If anything, hiring the best and brightest prevents those people from creating competitors. In the sense that I describe it, which is the sense in that it apparently didn't occur to YT to indicate a playing tab until now, Google et al are professional sandbaggers.

This feature is straight-up evidence that YT is behind the times. Rationalize away the bureaucracy or inertia or whatever of a company that size all you like, but fact is they're behind the times.

I bet they can write the shit out of a Quicksort on a whiteboard, though.