Twitch has been experiencing some feature bloat. The guy who thought of gifting subs should be made a millionaire. The guy who came up with channel points should find other work. The former increases value for both the streamer and Twitch, the latter is a simple distraction taking attention away from the stream content and only serves to increase page interactions.
I'm worried they're introducing changes to improve certain metrics and not caring that the changes are basically gaming the metrics.