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It wasn't taken away..it even wasn't working anymore in the old addon

This is not correct, it does work. There are a number of functions in the old addon which are not working in the new one. I'm not sure why the decision was taken to replace the old one with this version (probably haven't read back enough in the thread), but it should have at least the same functionality as the previous addon. A number of other addons require the functions in the old YouTube addon.

And download is no such feature that you require in an addon. Only thing that needs to work is playback

I'm not going to disagree with that, but it also doesn't play some older videos from the url so it affects addons which link to the YouTube addon like Vevo and Slooh. I'm just surprised that it totally replaced the previous version with as an update.