[MattH7]

Youtube seems sort of fundamental to Kodi itself. It used to get installed automatically, I think, and several other plugins depend upon it. Why doesn't "Team Kodi" get involved and just handle this?

This this is open source software created and maintained from a non-profit organisation and volunteers.

It relies on donations of money people and time like a lot of other open source projects.

This iss only my guess, but the Kodi team are probably stretched for resources and people as it is.

A Kodi team member, Bromix, created this Youtube addon and cannot maintain it anymore.

Did you read the very first post on the thread before commenting?

Bromix wasn't just the developer for the youtube addon, but also Vimeo, and a few other streaming video addons. It's understandable that Bromix may have had to give up maintaining the addon due to other commitments. What is a little bewildering is that several LEGAL streaming addons that were maintained by the same developer who flagged well in advance that they wouldn't be able to continue maintenance were left to rot, while there was a post on the main Kodi site bemoaning the rise of non-kosher kodi+addon packages, when they can't seem to keep the addons in the official repo in a working state or lose the source code.

This isn't meant to cause offense to anyone, but it would suggest that maybe now that Jarvis has been released it might be time to put some focus back on the addons that make Kodi so great and making sure that they can be maintained for future releases.