Seriously, what the fuck? I thought it was some kind of user interface glitch so I looked it up. Nope, they're A/B testing this shit.
Found this brilliant statement by Youtube on the matter:
Now note that we are deprecating one sorting option and that is by oldest video at the channel level. But don’t panic, you can still view the oldest video of a channel, by scrolling through it’s content’
Oh, yeah, just scroll to the bottom. Silly me, I guess I'm just a stupid idiot for not realizing the option was redundant since I can simply take the time to scroll through potentially thousands of videos.
Why are silicon valley tech people such freaks?
I want to make sure people know this refers to product managers and not software engineers
In YouTube's case it's because there are a lot of ideological fascists in management from what I've heard
I imagine one of them read a ux research article that was like "simpler apps tend to get more usage" and just started slashing and burning features to "simplify" youtube.