Burnie has been pushing the idea of keeping this reboot of RT as small as he feasibly can. Relying on Patreon support so far. Toying with the idea of capping off the Morning Somewhere subreddit off at some point once it reaches a certain number. On his podcast this week, he mentioned speaking with a Youtube partner relations person regarding the algorithm and was informed since he doesn't put ads on his videos, the algorithm won't be pushing his content to people since it's not making money. Which he seemed content with.
I wonder how this will play out. Towards the end of the recent interview which got posted here a few days ago, it sounds like he does want this to be more of a slow burn instead of expanding it as much and as quickly as he can. Referencing how he would like it to stay how small it was during the first few years of starting the company. Even if he doesn't outright acknowledge the fact that bloat was a major killing factor of how the company died, he seems aware of it.