Only Thomas Heaton can say what his original reasoning for having a YT channel and the content he put on it in the first place. From reading some of the comments above it seems that TH has been getting a lot of negative comments about some of the videos he has posted. I generally watch YT on a TV so don't see comments, and am not really interested in what others think of something. Now he says that he had been unhappy with some of the content he had been posting.

I must say he was hiding putting out content he wasn't happy with very well.
I like(d) the variety what he does, choosing locations, getting to locations, composition reasoning, camera settings and filter choices, but as a Pro Photographer there was also other things that entered his videos too, be that him being on workshops rather than alone in the wild, or speaking at events. Whilst gear has never been an emphasis of his site, just as in most photographers lives, gear changes happen from time to time, cameras, lenses, filters, tripods, printers, print papers and in his case a camper van, so I didn't see what the problem was with talking about it. If it helped someone make a choice, or not, to change to something, then it would have been a worthwhile posting. Now for some they don't want to see any of the latter, but as a eye into a photographers life I have found his YT channel my favourite of the genre. If he is not enthusiastic or comfortable in covering various subjects than that is up to him of course. Just like photography, the first person, and some would say the only person you need to please is yourself.

As a 'Pro', with an audience, that can sometimes not be the most important factor.
I also had no problem with not always getting an image as he mentioned, because that is what sometimes happens to a lot of people. As with a lot of people's posts on social media sites, you probably get an overly positive view of someone's 'life', so showing the ups and downs made it a bit more 'real' to me, and I hope that stays the same. Just because there is not an amazing, or very good, image at the end does not mean the journey was a wasted one. It is always nice to show why the image may not have been a keeper though, rather than not showing an image at all.
It will be interesting to see what changes from now on going forward. His video talking about this decision to change seemed to be overly slow and ponderous to me, maybe because of the confusion he said he has been going through with the direction from what he started out to do, what he had changed, and what he plans to do in the future, or maybe to emphasize the change, or both. It certainly seemed to be a sudden decision from just watching most of his previous vids.
