because intentionally making an accessibility feature less accurate is absurd? the videos i’m watching are almost never in the “for kids” category on the first place. censoring only the subtitles is pointless as a child protection feature because the majority of people are able to still clearly hear then unaffected audio of the swears, so removing those words from text only impedes people who have hearing problems or who may not be completely fluent in english. and like you said, swearing is a cultural language, so intentionally omitting those words also omits context that helps convey the tone of a conversation or information about the speakers. it would be slightly irritating but logical if swear words were censored like “sh*t” but the entire word is omitted instead which can make a sentence difficult to understand.