On 21 July I noted that the TV app for #
YouTube (e.g. Android TV, Chromecast with #
Google TV) had become much harder to use since user-specific search history was no longer being shown, replaced with a list of (as far as I'm concerned) utterly useless "hot, trending" topics. This meant that users had to manually reenter their common searches with every use. Extremely bad user experience. I made my concerns about this change known to Google. I'm sure I wasn't the only one.
I'm pleased to report that as of this morning, the original behavior has returned to the TV app, with user search history now appearing as it did before. Since this was not the case last night, and the app version is now dated 24 July, this clearly is an update.
Whether the obnoxious behavior was a bug or an intended "feature", thanks Google for reverting to the original behavior in this new version of the app.