So if you have invested years into You Tube, you don't want to associate your real name or other accounts with your you tube persona for either professional, artistic or business reasons. Now all those years are getting trashed by a useless (to the user, to Google possibly useful or maybe just casually destructive to to the company by trashing it's user base) push to integrate your YouTube persona into a whole Google ecosystem and you aren't being railroaded? Your solution to years worth of investment into a product that is now becoming rapidly useless to many members is "simply don't use their product?" Sounds like a shitty solution for both the user and for Google's long term prospects. So why are you a Google apologist and why can't you see that forcing an undesirable ecosystem on users that are invested in a product line is undesirable for many users.