This was my first thought as well.

How about search by language? At least don't translate my query if I am already entering it in a foreign language.

no no that's your inherent racism at play, how dare you ask for something like that ! are you telling us that you think finding content in your own language, framed from a socioeconomic perspective you relate to and recorded with microphones that don't sound like absolute garbage is preferable to the cultural diversity and equal opportunity that YouTube search currently supports? truly you are a monster among men.

I don't particularly care for content in my own language. YouTube would be such a nice language learning resource if it allowed search by language though.

There's actually another problem. There are how many videos on YouTube? Millions? Billions? How come search always seems to return the same 10 channels whose quality is at watchmojo levels ?

They re-added the oldest-to-newest sort option, at least for channels I watch

Yeah, I see that on the desktop. Unfortunately (for me) my main interface to YT is through the AppleTV app, which doesn't let me sort by anything at all. When viewing a channel, I see several horizontal lists. The first one ("Uploads") is sorted newest-first. The rest of them are either playlists the channel owner has created, or Shorts, or other related channels.

You can use the YouTube app on your phone as a remote for YT on the Apple TV it’s super nifty.

Love the Mitchell and webb reference