And then there are things like strcmp() that uses 0 as true. At least it is for a good reason, but still confusing.

The problem is that your whole family has to be not dumb enough.

Also the storage is the cost for the user, and google in the case of play store. So the developers have no incentive to reduce the size.

Yeah, that is just how youtube works. You as an individual can say you don’t like annoying thumbnails and titles, but they 100% work. And channels that don’t use them are just not getting as many viewers.

There is a reason clickbait images and titles are used, they work. If they didn’t work, no one would use them.