Don't Rename "Travel & Outdoors" to "IRL"
Twitch recently announced they're going to make this change, but instead of helping it will only confuse people. IRL is currently a directory that comprises multiple categories: Just Chatting, Travel & Outdoors, Music, Art, Sports, etc. There are some who are nostalgic and stuck in the past, and refer to IRL as outdoor streams only. But, as we've seen, IRL has expanded a lot over time and has become anything a streamer would do that doesn't involve streaming video games. We need to move forward instead of backward.
Instead of making this change, a more helpful approach would be this suggestion here: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310210-discover/suggestions/47420147-browseable-directories
This would help by making the IRL directory the catch-all place for all IRL content instead of Just Chatting. The current layout of the Browse page doesn't work for everybody. It needs to be fully browseable. When we click one of the directory banners (Games, IRL, Creative, etc.) it would be better to show all the streams within that directory instead of showing recommendations. For anyone interested in discovering new channels or getting recommendations they already have a dedicated page for that: the Main/Discover page. Lets keep browsing separate from recommendations. Therefore, move the recommendations from the Browse page into the Main/Discover page to complement what is already there.
With this approach streamers may become comfortable and incentivized to use proper categories to distinguish their content, which will bring more organization, while still getting them noticed within the whole of IRL. If streamers started using the appropriate categories, viewers would know where to go to find the content they are looking for and channels would get better discoverability in return. This could also satisfy those who wished for the initial IRL category to return. That isn't practical now because of the variety in IRL content, hence a browseable IRL directory would be a much better solution.