Understood. Must be that. I run a rather lean system with as little added graphical fluff as I can. That habit comes from running a $300 hp office machine, bought in 2009, up until 2019. Even with an added low-grade graphics card and maxed RAM, and running xcfe manjaro (or a distro very similar), I had to download yt videos and play them in vlc; they would not play in browser, even 480p.
Streaming audio with no video with hiccup sometimes too! I was about to migrate to an even less graphically heavy flavor, or no GUI at all, but choose to finally build a new machine, something I was looking to do for almost 3 years but kept putting it off as an unnecessary purchase.
Ill def be more actively involved in updating my system and watching announcements, after this last update. Id like to keep this install going for as long as possible 
… eventho a fresh install has its perks!