I find myself becoming ineffective as a Mod when my buffer slips to 20 and 30 seconds long. Any time the stream from the channels I mod gets laggy I find myself seriously behind Real Time. While reloading the page can help with this, every time I do I miss large chunks of stream time, possibly missing relevant contextual information for knowing when to Allow or Override the AutoMod. (When AutoMod catches the message "Oh look, its Captain D i c k!" it's relevant for me to quickly know that a man named D i c k was just introduced on-stream.) (Edit: Really? As if to prove my point that context is important, I had to edit this name in order to not have it censored in this message)

I can understand that an option like this can make the stream choppier, and that you may be hesitant to open an option like this to the general userbase, but for someone who is "working" its worth the compromise.

Many times I was unable to see the Streams of some affiliates and non affiliates because their stream quality was only at source and the different stream quality option is readily available for Partners only. While affiliates and non-affiliates have to restart their stream sometimes quite a few times to get the option. I feel like this further decreases their visibility and growth because many people with not so good Internet are unable to watch them in Source quality. I am not a Streamer so I am saying this solely as a Viewer's experience on Twitch. I'd be really glad if the affiliates and non affiliates also get the video options constantly.
Maybe not all the options that Partners have because it is one of the perks of being a partner but at least one or two lower quality options

Guys during livestreams there are often bandwidth issues, so basically you have to accept really ****** quality & interrupts to stay live. For some events though I totally would not mind being 10 minute delayed or so in order to have the stream preloaded and available in good quality and sacrificing real time. Such a feature would be great. Also when rewatching videos - the download should continue when the pause button is pressed or should not reload when you jump back in time - it is a pitty that you can't really watch high quality videos, because the player does not utilize local storage efficiently...

Just a few moments ago, I switched streams and the playback window was an inch too big: There was a field of empty black space between the chat scroll and the player where there wasn't one before. Since I hadn't updated my browser or changed it or anything like that, and further hearing other users complain about it, I decided that Twitch must have rolled out some new feature that wasn't playing nice with me. Heading over to the support ticket page, and after scrolling through the numerous options of permitted support ticket topics I couldn't find anything even close to being about 'Hey your player broke', outside of specific App types I'm not using. It's not an extension either, since neither streamer used extensions.

Why are you not accepting bug reports about what must be the primary way users view content on Twitch? This seems like a tremendous oversight. If the thing is broken, let me tell you and ask for help!