I get that you guys are entitled to your own form of moderation but I have no desire to invest time in creating content for free that I don't get to choose who gets to access.
If I'm going to contribute to the public internet I don't want someone else choosing who gets to see it based on their moderation work load. I already made a mistake of investing time and creating content on Reddit so it's time for something different.
I would still guess people would rather block it and context switch for those 5-10 seconds or it could be preloaded for every video on the timeline which in turn just hurt Youtube's ad system. The reality is that adblock people are tech savy minority and it's not worth bending the whole ad pipeline out of shape just for that.
I guess we'll see how Google handles this but I don't think they can pull it off tbh.