The folks at Battlebots probably don't care what we think of Pro League
As valid as all of our critiques may be, the people behind the scenes at the very top probably don't care a great deal about them. Why do I say this? Here are a few reasons.
1 - We are a vocal minority.
The hardcore fans of anything are always a minority, and usually vocal. Reddit's internal figures say this sub has had about 14,000 unique viewers in the past week, and maybe a few hundred of them have been involved in conversations about the problems with episode 1. Meanwhile the episode is approaching 100k views. In their eyes, they have no reason to think that making changes to please us, especially because...
2 - Most of us will watch it anyway.
Hardcore fans of things like the thing enough to watch it even when they have issues about how it is being executed or presented. Many of us care enough about this sport to watch single-angle, low-quality event livestreams and raw footage of beetle and ant events. Many of us moved mountains to watch shows from China despite them being on platforms that we could barely access and entirely in a language we didn't understand. The fact that this series is currently being edited in a way that makes it almost unwatchable isn't going to be enough for most of us to actually stop watching, even if we will keep complaining about it. Knowing that, they will almost certainly be thinking that...
3 - Finding new viewers is more valuable to them than keeping old ones.
One advantage of being on youtube is discoverability. If Battlebots can game the algorithm well enough, they can get their content pushed to people who would otherwise have never seen it. They likely believe that the current editing style will do a good job of appealing to the average youtube viewer who has no attachment to what they're watching. They might even be right, and I don't honestly know if I hope they are or hope they aren't.
Overall, it sucks to see something you love get watered down and become a shadow of what we know it can be. I don't like any of this and I wish the world worked differently. I don't think we should stop banging the drum about trying to make things suck less, but I personally will do it with managed expectations about what it will actually change.