The issue was closed, but a draft PR was linked… potato:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14034

They were exaggerating to avoid work. Look at the PR diff to determine whether your anti-Rust bias is true.

You don’t install piped or individious, they are websites you simply navigate too:

https://piped.video/

Or you even can install a firefox extension to redirect all youtube links automatically for you. Here is one that has minimal permissions required:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-redirect/