Thank you so much for the appreciation. Means a lot to us.

We restrained ourselves from doing that coz we didn't want to hamper with the watching experience a lot. Our contention was with the distraction thumbnails add when we wish to be in productivity mode and so thought to tune them down a bit by blurring the thumb.

If the user still wants to browse what's in the video, we allowed the users to do that.

Are we missing your use case here? Can you explain a bit more about your need? We may actually resemble with your point and go forward giving option for this.

Take care!