New update messed everything up

The newest update on the IOS YouTube app has added a plethora of new features; most of them I do not approve of.
One of the new features is the auto play function and the arrows on each side of the screen to go to the next video. This new feature is very inconvenient because the arrows cover too much of the screen and are very easily accidentally clickable. This causes the user to go to the next video even when they don not want to.
The second useless and annoying feature added is the screen getting darker and eventually turning off. The arrows on the screen caused a mild problem, but this screen thing is a MAJOR inconvenience. Many times, I like to watch a video while I do some work, so I have to set down the iPhone in order to actually do the work. But, now I cant do this because the screen gets darker and turns off if you leave it alone for too long ,(even when a video is playing). This is inconvenient because if someone is watching a cooking tutorial on YouTube and they have their hands full, they will not be able to tap the screen every fifteen seconds to keep it up.
These are my main two complaints about the app. It was fine before this useless new update. I strongly urge the app developers to change it back to the way it used to be where there are no arrows on the screen, and you dont have to tap the screen every few seconds.

A few days after writing the few paragraphs above, I have found that I am literally not capable of playing any videos on the YouTube app. The pictures and thumbnails do not load at all, and when I try to play the video, it says something like "error. Tap to try again". Thats not because my internet is bad, I am still able to access all other apps. It is only YouTube. Please change the app back to how it was. Maybe this is happening to me because I use an iPhone 4s.

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