I find this annoying too. Previously, it was one click to reveal a pop-up menu to change video quality, then another click to select a video setting. Essentially, two clicks.
Now it's one click to display the pop-up settings menu. Another click to reveal the video quality pop-up menu. Another click to select a video quality setting. And now that they've shoehorned all settings into one menu, you need another click to dismiss the entire settings menu. So they've gone from two clicks to four. Plus, there's the glaring inelegance of displaying a pop-up menu and then another pop-up menu within your pop-up menu.
I know Google have UX designers - I would love to know what their rationale is for their UX choices. I'm guessing, like Gmail, part of the design ethos was to "streamline" the interface or sweep away what they perceived as interface clutter. But all they've actually done is clumsily obscure features that were easier to access previously.
Now it's one click to display the pop-up settings menu. Another click to reveal the video quality pop-up menu. Another click to select a video quality setting. And now that they've shoehorned all settings into one menu, you need another click to dismiss the entire settings menu. So they've gone from two clicks to four. Plus, there's the glaring inelegance of displaying a pop-up menu and then another pop-up menu within your pop-up menu.
I know Google have UX designers - I would love to know what their rationale is for their UX choices. I'm guessing, like Gmail, part of the design ethos was to "streamline" the interface or sweep away what they perceived as interface clutter. But all they've actually done is clumsily obscure features that were easier to access previously.