I like UIs like this when just one thing is in the focus....I think few years ago here on HN someone did something like this but for Twitch; where you could switch back and forth between live streamers which had only 1 viewer. This format is definitely good for fast and easy discovery.

This is what makes the experience for me. You can tell someone "check out channel 12" and you'll both be watching the same thing just like we used to do.

Yo Peter, just out Channel 9!

[It's the best exam, kind of looks like Anne]

—Office Space (1999), the movie which inspired me to drop out of graduate school and become an electrician