For the same reason smoke stacks and ventilation ducts have the least number of turns and bends: any obstruction creates back-pressure ... and back pressure is something you don't want when you are trying to dissipate excess heat during a SCRAM.

Then again ... whoever thought they could hit a 1.5 meter target while travelling at 250+ meters / second ....

There are plenty of other logic analyzers that are open source. To name a few: SUMP, Open Workbench, Logic Shrimp.

Just stop using Youtube. Post the video on your own site. Case closed.

Get yourself a server in the US and install your own proxy... Won't cost you more than $100/month.