My thoughts exactly. I get it's 'harder' for the typical user since the easy programs (Limewire, Frostwire, et. al) all took nose-dives, and maybe my penchance for quality makes me biased, but I don't understand going through the hassle of downloading and importing terrible-quality music to your device when so many streaming services are available at various (cheap, imo) price points. Even if you do want to illegally obtain your music for moral or whatever reasons, torrenting is easier than it's ever been and music is stupid simple to find on the bigger sites, as long as you keep a vigilant eye for the (usually pretty obvious) malware.
I honestly don't even buy the "but it's easier when you have no service" argument because every one of these streaming apps has a way to save songs for offline listening. You're saving yourself $10/month just to spend how many hours going through the songs you want, getting URLs, downloading them, then moving them onto your device. Then of course the hassle of music videos being different than the original song, or managing storage space on both PC and device.
I think there are two main reasons to download from yt. The first one is that a lot of music is only available there. Services or torrents are not as vast as one would like when you are looking for something specific.
The second reason is that services that provide offline usage are cumbersome to use in certain escenarios; eg: old car stereo
I honestly don't even buy the "but it's easier when you have no service" argument because every one of these streaming apps has a way to save songs for offline listening. You're saving yourself $10/month just to spend how many hours going through the songs you want, getting URLs, downloading them, then moving them onto your device. Then of course the hassle of music videos being different than the original song, or managing storage space on both PC and device.