It’s not really hiding anything. I mean there’s an endpoint for the total number of viewers and channels, and getting the first couple hundred streams for each game where like 90% of the viewers are isn’t really a problem, and if I was the competitor who for some reason really needed all the detailed data on every stream I wouldn’t mind repeatedly spamming requests for every page throughout the pagination until I got about as many unique streams as the total number of streams indicates I should get.
But, yeah, I guess the pagination is really not designed around requesting more than one or two pages.