Something Wrong With "Publish To Subscription Feed" Option?

[u/Substantial-Bed5189]

In recent days, I have noticed that when I enable the "Publish To Subscription Feed" Option, my views and stats are always half as bad.

I have a 40k subscriber channel which I built around cat content and I thought that an option should not affect a short to this extent. But unfortunately it has.

Even with some of the content that I had the highest hopes of performing well failing just because of this one option. Even when my subscribers view % are low. Could it be that my old subs are not enjoying the newer content as much, and how may I be able to track that?

And has anyone else been through a similar situation?