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There are several issues with the new Mobile app UI. The biggest of which is being unable to at a glace see what all your followed streamers are doing. Hiding them in a list to the side, without a preview is unhelpful. I understand you can see a preview by scrolling through the discovery feed, however its order is not consistent nor does it show all your followed before scrolling to streamers you aren't following.
I do like the scrolling idea for finding new streams, but it should be an entirely separate and removed tab, or even a module in a more static home page similar to the recommended section of the previous UI. Another annoyance is I cannot browse while watching a stream. The background play feature does not work when a preview plays over the stream you're currently watching.
However on top of being unhelpful for being faithful to current streamers, the new app is rife with bugs. The discovery feed starts lagging and stops showing new streamers after only two or three scrolls, on top of often buffering for a long time before showing the preview you intended to quickly let us see the stream you want us to discover, meaning users are more likely to look at the static image before scrolling than waiting for the preview. There's also an issue where the app suddenly switches which stream you are watching. Sometimes even playing both streams at the same time before swapping. This is annoying after already making my choice.
If I were to make a compromise between old app UI and new, I would take the current discovery tab, and make it a new tab in the old twitch mobile UI, and make it purely discover new streamers only not followers plus new streamers. This compromise seems most reasonable, assuming there are people who do prefer the new app design over the old. However hanging out in half a dozen english twitch streams with 1k + people I have seen no one defend the new UI, only complain.