MechKit

This is standard dictator behavior, giving up power for the benefit of their people.

A good backup is to install Seal and share the video to it to download. Seal seems to keep an updated version of yt-dlp that has not failed for me yet. It’s just not for subscriptions and multiple downloads.

There is even a Star Trek-ish game where you have to produce to earn money to upgrade the ship for your crew. I get that it is a game mechanic, but seems like a perfect setting to not have money, and just concentrate on the people.

Defending yourselves from an invader is inconvenient to our profits.