Being on good terms doesn't mean you can't call someone out for their mistakes. Assuming Linus has the integrity he claims to have (and I hope he does), he will absolutely welcome this critique. He frequently mentions that he wants competition in this space to make everyone better. This should be a wake up call.
Unfortunately, since he is no longer head of the company, I could see him shifting this responsibility to the new CEO. Then again, he has frequently taken responsibility for mistakes when he could have passed the buck. For example, when the channel was hacked, he listed all of the things he could have done preemptively that could have prevented the issue, rather than throwing the specific employee under the bus. I'm hoping that he responds similarly this time, and improves procedures going forward. The "Chief Visionary Officer" needs to recognize that, as the company continues to grow larger, mistakes carry a lot more weight. The apparently cavalier attitude towards inaccurate information can absolutely crush smaller companies like Billet Labs, and his response of "it's not worth $500 to do it right because I don't believe it will change the outcome" is concerning (I think I'm mixing incident responses, but the concept applies generally).
If doing it "right" means fewer videos, I'm all for it. Trying to keep a schedule to satisfy YouTube's algorithm should not come at the expense of your or others' reputations. They run their own streaming platform, so they are in a better position than most to ignore YouTube's fickle whims.
NotTheOnlyGamer