Let view this another way, Twitch please keep the bits around as it is easier to encourage impulse buying. With the super cheer option there are fixed amounts and it if it's not amount a viewer of a stream plans to do in one go, they are less likely to make that impulse purchase. With bits, it is easier to allow impulse purchases of bits which interns leads to different interactivity with streamers. For example, someone may be more convinced to buy 500 bits, and spend that over several message triggering different sound alerts, pop ups, or other forms of interactivity. Bits is a strong purchasing system which has been integrated in the way streamers drive revenue to their channel, which is going to be lost in this feature goes away.
Let view this another way, Twitch please keep the bits around as it is easier to encourage impulse buying. With the super cheer option there are fixed amounts and it if it's not amount a viewer of a stream plans to do in one go, they are less likely to make that impulse purchase. With bits, it is easier to allow impulse purchases of bits which interns leads to different interactivity with streamers. For example, someone may be more convinced to buy 500 bits, and spend that over several message triggering different sound alerts, pop ups, or other forms of interactivity. Bits is a strong purchasing system which has been integrated in the way streamers drive revenue to their channel, which is going to be lost in this feature goes away.