I've been pretty reluctant to comment ever since I created a Google+ account and it switched to my real name. I've never had too terrible comments, but I just don't want my real name anywhere near YouTube comments. I've never seen the value in comments there. Early on in YouTube's history it was a real community building tool, now it's just terrible.
I agree. Seems their strategy is to offer some teaser feature/product/whatever and the only way to access it is to create a new Google Plus account. So now I have THREE separate Google Plus accounts. Personal, Business and now YouTube. I would just delete YouTube but I have thousands of views and my Adsense account is linked to that. I'd like to make more content for YouTube but they make it difficult to manage multiple accounts for multiple channels. For example, I don't want my abstract painting videos associated with my primary business, that would be bad for my business. If I make another channel, I think that means I need a separate email address, separate password and a separate Google Plus profile and then logout, login, logout, login, there's got to be a better way. I'd put my art videos on Vimeo but YouTube has all the traffic and I'm a YouTube partner! That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Well, until they decide Good news everyone, we just made even easier to engage with your viewers by linking all other videos of your account in 'what else to watch by..'. There's a good reason for parent to use separate accounts.
Under the hood Youtube channels based on Google+ Pages actually belong to a separate Google account so its unlikely.
Even if in the universe where they lost there heads and did do it, G+ pages are designed to support multiple owners so you're not locked in since you could just chuck it over to another account.
