Like many others here, it's not the feature itself that I take issue with, but the manner in which it was rolled out, which is a recurring and extremely frustrating problem with Twitch. Literally all you had to do was add an on/off switch. The fact that you explicitly chose not to--and then tried to justify it with some nonsense about a "consistent viewer experience"--speaks volumes. Try actually talking to streamers (all of them, not just the top 1%) about what they do and do not want from your platform once in a while.
Like many others here, it's not the feature itself that I take issue with, but the manner in which it was rolled out, which is a recurring and extremely frustrating problem with Twitch. Literally all you had to do was add an on/off switch. The fact that you explicitly chose not to--and then tried to justify it with some nonsense about a "consistent viewer experience"--speaks volumes. Try actually talking to streamers (all of them, not just the top 1%) about what they do and do not want from your platform once in a while.