Yeah... This is only anti-consumer for those consumer who MUST have a game on day 1 release.
Honestly, the real reason I bet this Youtuber is pissed off is that he is cut out on pre-release hype action.
It is ultimately a limited amount of reviewers who are given access to pre-release games for review.
Post-release, ANYBODY and EVERYBODY can review the game, removing the pre-release folks' advantage.
In fact, the pre-release system is MORE anti-consumer, because the Devs control who gets access.
Meaning, they can simply not give copies to people they think are inclined to give poor reviews.
Youtubers/media are incentivized to give a good review because they will get continue to get access if they do.
Sure, not everybody will be corrupt, but the system is biased towards that dynamic.
EDIT: It would be interesting to compare pre-release review scores to post-release scores of the same game.
When consumers wait until after release, they get benefit of much broader spectrum of reviews.
Pre-release reviews in fact fill a position in between pure dev PR and post-release full freedom reviews.
Their existence only manipulates those who aren't aware of the difference vs. post-release reviews to trust them more.
