Urgh, personally, i can't stand watching this video even.
I used to be subscribed to him, watch a lot of his videos and i am not gonna say that he changed.
He might have, but i have for sure.
Oh well.
More on topic, that would be a weird thing to do for him, though i am sure he would be fine on subscribers with a new channel as soon as he mentions it on one of his social media things.
Including stufftons of "dead" subscribers.
And no this situation won't change.
Youtube wants to and HAS to change every once in a while.
It has to try and innovate to try and improve it's product and it will not be all good all the time.
I have had the subscription page favorited and open since i heard about this problem actually quite a while ago.
As he said, i don't really care about the recommended stuff, most of it is meh.
Rarely i find myself using the recommended videos feature.
Most of the things i subscribe to or am subscribed to i found through friends or cooperative videos of two (or more) channels.