The idea is to keep the selection screen for quality settings the same but change the values of that each quality setting means

For example on streamer A who streams at source quality of 720p 4000kbps bitrate
Their quality settings would be as follows:
High:1280x720 3300kbps
Medium:1280x720 2700kbps
low:1152x648 2000kbps
Moblie:960x540 1000kbps

But for streamer B who streams at source quality of 1080p 6000kbps bitrate
Their quality settings would be as follows:
High:1280x720 5000kbps
Medium:1280x720 3800kbps
low:1152x648 2800kbps
Moblie:960x540 1500kbps

This would solve the problem of the massive reduction of quality seen between a streamers source and high quality and also give people who's internet is not good enough to watch on source quality a better range of options suited to every stream.

A quick example of the problem for people in between streamers 'high and source' ranges is when a stream streams at a quality of 720p 60fps 6000kpbs. And the first option down from that is 'high'. Which is currently a massive leap to 720p 30fps 1500kbps. Leaving a massive gap is quality and a huge range in which viewers internet speeds will be. Resulting in someone who has reasonably good internet having to select a quality option WAY below what their own internet can handle

Thanks!
-Kieran

Some time ago Twitch increased the bitrate cap on streams to 6,000 kbps per second (Source quality), however started causing a lot of buffering to people that either live too far away from any Twitch server (due to all the routing) or to people who do not have a fast connection.

That wouldn't be that much of a problem if the 'High' video quality option wasn't set to such a low bitrate (around 1,200 kbps), which is around 360p and makes everything blurry and pixelated.

I was hoping this was just some temporary thing that Twitch was testing with big streamers, but a lot of weeks already passed and more and more streamers are adopting the increased bitrate, so right now it feels really bad to watch anything on Twitch becuase people like me have to either deal with buffering or extremely low resolution.

Is there any chance Twitch can offer an intermediary video quality option between 'Source' and 'High" quality?