[gipp]

Not really; chrome and Android are far more independent.

YT is integrated at every level from infrastructure on up. It depends on Google-internal libraries which are in turn integrated with other parts of the infrastructure... It would pretty much amount to a full from-scratch rewrite of almost the entire product.

Moreover, I'd question whether other providers even have the available public resource capacity to support YT.

[vlangber]

Or give both Youtube and Google ownership of the affected code, and let them develop separately from the split.