I agree with you, but I don't have the full collection of YouTube videos to provide an independent search engine on top of it.

I will add better local filters though, so we can tame YouTube's search results and suggestions better to our needs. I haven't paid too much attention to that part yet because after years of YouTube experience I've fallen into a mode in which I mostly watch stuff from a set of fixed channels and only use search to look for videos I already know exactly, never to find new stuff.