I take it you weren't around for the Nexus 7 (first edition)?
Not for me :)
I'm not in the beta, and this is what my WhatsApp looks like now. This might be old news, but until today I had the green UI.
(Sorry for the crappy censor job. I wish Android had a blur feature built-in)
Which phone do you have? I've been able to disable that "swipe left to access Google" thing on every Google Pixel I've ever owned. Just long-press your home screen and go to home settings and disable it.
That's ok.
I use revanced for YouTube on my Android phone.
I use Smarttube Next for YouTube on my Android TV.
It works wonderfully.
That isn't new, that's how ad networks work. Google owns one of the largest ad networks.
It's important to me - I don't use phone cases.
This never made it to outside the US, what exactly was it? (the linked help page doesn't actually say)
Which app are you using to remap remote buttons?
Yeah, Connect has this too. It's glaringly missing from Sync.
Both of these apps were sold to dodgy third parties who make their revenue through ads.
I miss ten years ago, when Googlers jumped out of a plane whilst in a Google Glass video call and landed straight into IO. Yeah it was a gimmick, but it got us all talking.
I miss when Android was less mature and had a lot of catching up to do, and IO was the delivery of all the exciting enhancements coming to Android.
It's hard to get excited when the biggest announcements this year will be... "We made our AI better, buy our phone and you'll be able to use it".