User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/An Update on the Future of Featured Video/@comment-4772526-20191211134214

Based on my initial reading, my first impression is that this new version of Featured Videos doesn't address the previous concerns users had and that ultimately led to the original concept being removed/dropped.
 * Integration: With the original Featured Videos, a wiki had no control over how it was integrated on their articles to ensure it matched their desired aesthetic. As I recall, the video was given prominence at the top of the article, effectively making the content of the article - that the community had put so much effort into - appear less important. With this new version 2, I do not see anything that has changed to address this.
 * Relevance: The content of the original videos was connected to the article topic but was often out-of-date or contained very clear errors. The version 2 is no longer connected to the topic of the article or even the wiki in general, so it effectively just becomes an advertisement for other wikis within the same vertical (which can cover very wide ranges of fandoms). If as stated the intention is to see "how we can make video complement wiki content", this seems like a very big step backwards.
 * Benefit to the wiki: As other users have noted, assuming a visitor to a wiki is also interested in other wikis in that vertical seems highly questionable given the range of communities each vertical covers. I fail to see what benefit this brings to a wiki, particularly for wikis not currently in the period of new content being released. It seems more likely to just draw people away to larger wikis with newly released content.

I understand that Fandom is concerned with the entire community of wikis and thus want to promote cross-readership. But my concern is for my own wiki, and I do not see how it will benefit from this new version of Featured Videos. My feeling is that concerns that plagued the original haven't been addressed, and the changes that have been made seem to be a step back.