It is not trivial to manage a platform, developer API, and the millions of users of both.
However, this is a well-documented and solved problem of managing upgrade and deployment PROCESS. Twitch has clear issues with understanding these processes while disturbing the user-base as little as possible for the 3rd party developer-side of the platform.
As a community of developers, many of which were burned by Twitter and their ‘no developer shall write an application’ approach, we are very sensitive to changes and highly invested in the success of the API platform. We want it to evolve. What we don’t see is new features being added, capabilities that match the end-user experience, or a test platform for us to test our integrations with future updates.
I look forward to more communication on this front in the future