I never said that people that are new to twitch don’t matter, my point was that just because you have a significant number of users new to twitch that are subbing, and don’t have a subset of users who wish privacy that doesn’t mean that is the same for all Twitch partners and of various sizes. Both the old system and the new system have issues, the polling the API you mentioned isn’t an issue for everyone as not every partner wants to have alerts for users who choose to sub privately so wouldn’t need to do that anyway.
3ventic has mentioned the button issue will be fixed soon so hopefully that’ll ease your concerns with users not knowing what to do.
As for the value of user choice and privacy, we will just have to agree to disagree on 