YouTube is part of the attention economy. Videos do better with click bait titles than they do with bland informative titles.

That was basically the premise of the series. This was one of multiple videos in that series. I don't know about everyone else but a good portion of that video was showing the physical steps taken to make these reactions happen on a sub, which I thought was more interesting than just getting a chemical reaction given as an answer

> To your last question: the nature of having to attract clicks means youtube creators have to choose reductive titles that tease some particular nugget of information that's going to be discussed