Compared to what? It's easily the best Internet cable TV product on the market IMHO.

It’s an odd “in between” between classic TV and YouTube itself.

If you want to watch “the most likely thing you would want to watch” (NFL, Olympics main feed), YouTubeTV is great.

But as soon as you want to find something off the top few recommendations, it gets much harder. Compare that to regular TV, when I could just remember 27 is Discovery Channel and get there instantly.

The answer is pretty obvious. They don't want people remembering the content producers. Same reason they've worked so hard to kill the subscription feed on YouTube. They want you to rely on their recommendation engine.

It worked great on an ipad but on a TV app I had to go click, click, click, click 40 times to get to the channel I wanted.

Their TV choices are confounding. I don’t know about other platforms, but the YouTube app on Apple TV is the most useless thing I’ve ever tried. Search is abysmal.

The worst part is that it’s the best UI for its product segment by far, and I don’t think it’s even close.

The bar is incredibly low.