Thanks, I think you are in a handful of people who saw it that way. Honestly that video didn't turn out the way I had intended it to.
Dave via Justin actually sent me one of the original ones without a bottom back in March I think. As much as I tried to like it and experience something that alternated my cooking experience, it just doesn't benefit me for what I do. There is nothing wrong with it. I had to change my vent settings compared to how I normally set them but once you learn the nuances it works.
I have had ten months to look back on things. Lost a lot of fellow youtube friends from that video and now I think over time have gained most back. That all being said, I think there is hype on both sides of the discussion, pros and cons to whether you use one or not, but at the end of the day my real intent of that video was for the "new guy" who has never had a kettle to understand that you can cook low and slow with just the kettle itself.
I think sometimes we folks who have cooked for a few years and longer assume that that is basic knowledge anyone would know from the beginning. Through forums / facebook / real life conversations it became very eye opening to me how many people may have never grown up around charcoal or are just plain ignorant to the basics of grilling and smoking. The things most of us take for granted as common knowledge they don't understand or have trouble grasping.
YouTube can be a very dangerous place for those looking for knowledge because the top ranked video for whatever you are looking for doesn't have to be factual to be number 1. The only thing it has to do is have a nice thumbnail that gets people to click on it more often than others. Since I have a behind the curtain perspective if you will on the cooking community on YouTube I will tell you there are plenty of channels that are popular but the person you are watching knows very little about what they are doing.