For context I have watched Spudgun's 3 videos he has done with same group before the original post on this thread was made.
I think it is a mistake to post this particular groups reaction videos here for a couple of reasons.
First of all most people on the forum are more informed about the development of Victoria 3 than these guys are. Of the 5 chaps in the video linked only 1 had read the the dev diary and the dev responses. Given this video was live streamed 5 DAYS after the dev diary, the guys in the video had just chosen not inform themselves about the topic. The last video is nothing but a bunch of hot takes made 5 days after the dev diary. What is baffling is they have time to make a 2-3 hour video on the topic but don't have 20 minutes to read the dev diary and the dev comments beforehand!? Many have clearly not watch the PDXCON videos. They also don't know the names of the people on the dev team and there roles. They frequently pontificate on questions already answered. Most of us have eaten up as much information as we can about Vicky 3, so watching people who are not nearly as engaged with the process as the people on this forum here are can be frustrating.
Of course they have a right to go about chatting about these dev diaries and reddit posts with little preparation they like. I am not the boss of them. But as I mentioned, most of us here on the forum are looking for every bit of information we can get about the development. You will get no insights to the development of this game from Spudgun's videos for the reasons I have mentioned above.
This quote leads me into my second point. Verbatim, "doomer" is exactly what the chaps in this video called themselves. No one on these forums gave them this title, they gave it to themselves. And this isn't something they gave themselves at the end of the 3rd video either. It is at the beginning of the first video. They are clearly cynical or pessimistic about PDX's ability to deliver a good game. It is hard to know if they are looking to confirm their own cynical take on the company or they are genuinely concerned about issues that experienced Vicky 2 players see. Overall the videos are extremely negative. Think of these forums as you will, but they are significantly more upbeat than these videos.
In the end, my points are, that the videos are a collection of guys who know less about the Vicky 3 development than most of us and they are by there own admission "doomers" in regards to this game. I understand they have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to Vicky 2 (which is why I have watched them) but they are not going to add anything to the discussion of the development in the context of these forums. As you can already see, the thread in regards to this video is less than savory. I think it would just be best if we didn't see another video here.
Maybe they are not following Vic3’s dev diaries with the same passion as people on the forum, but you can’t deny they are good at analyzing the information. I mean, just by taking a look at the few images we have from the game they’ve been able to extract a lot of information.
Also them being in the sceptical train rather than the hype train (like most of us on the forums are), lets them make a more cold and rationale observation of the information.
For example: I was very hyped (or I still am, I don’t know) imagining that the economic and POP system was gonna be even more detailed and deep than the Vic2 one, but these guys have made me realize that it actually looks a much more simplified system.
From what we’ve seen we can extract some really bad things: those flat arbitrary values (“+100, +150, -200”) in the capacities tab, Sweden getting 1/4 of their entire diplomatic power (mana) from a ruler trait, tax and spending 0-100% sliders being replaced by 5 buttons loosing all the granularity, economic theories no longer being applied organically by the player instead now you just press a button to magically change your economic system, capitalists no longer build their own business by their own making economic systems like laissez-faire impossible and destroying part of economic simulation spirit Vic2 had, POPs no longer belong to specific provinces now they just belong to big size states (so in the state of California you can’t tell what POPs live in San Francisco or in the desert), and so on..
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure Vic3 is going to be better in every other aspect of the game (diplomacy, war, graphics, etc), BUT Vic2 fans like me are disappointed by how Vic3 is taking a more EU4/Stellaris path in how the base game works, because we want Vic3 to maintain that “economic organic simulation” feeling Vic2 had, that made the game’s world feel so alive, and that is exactly what made Vic2 a cult game, because although it may be worst in almost every aspect in comparison to nowadays Pdx games, it had this special soul, that let you apply economic theories (socialism, laissez faire, etc) to your country and watch the results in a very organic and natural way. Also, in Vic2, POPs felt a lot like real organic population, while in Vic3 it seems that POPs are going to be mainly things you need to max your buildings production, it seems like the focus of the game will be the buildings your country has, rather than the people.
We still have very few information on how Vic3 works, and it looks promising in many aspects, but I think it is much better to show criticism and scepticism to the devs now that they are still making the same, than this whole hype train thing were no matter what devs say they get all this unconditional support and likes and agrees etc.