A lot of smaller Streamer only allow verified accounts only because there is a lot of spam happening and they don't have enough mods to deal with that
That's totally fine, I am not mad at them, I understand their motives.
It's then just simply not for me, is all.
Or just leave twitch g
Just an unimportant hobby, is all ;)
It's the same tone for me as was used on Discord. There it's also not discord, but the server owners (as I learned a few comments down)
Apart from that: yes, I somehow blame the "give us your phonenumber approach". It's a lazy solution and a couple of years back, before the "war on terror/drugs/childporn/whatever" we used to get sim cards without r egistration and a DNA test (the later is a slight exaggeration ;))
And of course big companies such as Amazon or Discord love data such as the phone number.
It's a super data point to link profiles across a variety of services