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This must cost YouTube a fortune doing additional processing and reduced flexibility. They are going to hurt themselves and blockers will find a way.
There's already extensions that somehow skip sponsorship sections, so it won't even take that long.
That's "crowdsourced", i.e. manually done by volunteers on per-video basis.
I see a good use case for AI, can also be crowd sourced.