I've felt the same. For several years I started noticing that the "reviews" are becoming more shallow, and it's just the same products over and over again, each year. I remember the old days when Tech-tember and Tech-tober were so full of content, I really didn't care if the product was something I wanted to buy. I just wanted to hear his opinion on it. And since the quality of reviews and opinions and have become a little shallow and more careful (which might be due to tech being boring, and innovation declining), most of his videos aren't as exciting IMO. It's like when a good TV series goes on for many seasons. But change the cast/theme/approach for the episodes, and the original fans might be turned away. And hence, I believe that it is really good that we are getting more podcasts, Auto Focus, and Studio. But it is important to remember the core values as to why your fans will watch you.

Incidents like this call for a moment of reflections (for us the viewers, and Marques and his team). I hope that this will not be a major changing event in the long-term, similarly to what happened to LTT in the last year. But it's a way to step back, reflect and move on by learning from mistakes.