Ha, this outrage is quaint. You know what it reminds me of is when Facebook made their big interface change a couple years back and everyone was all up in arms and signing petitions to change it back. Anyone remember what the outcome of that was? Nothing.
I don't comment or post on Youtube. I can't remember exactly whether it was around the time of your "big interface change" or not, but at some point I blanked my Facebook profile. I still post the occasional comment or chit-chat, but my several-year-old interests are probably not worth much money to them. My sense is that Facebook is becoming the next Myspace; maybe Google can be the next Alta Vista.
You're right in that much of the complaining arises from the new comment system - which is probably better than what came before, you could hardly make the old system any worse - and is futile. The issues of privacy intrusion, though, are valid, and will not go away.
