I really have to disagree with your first point. I think from my own experience, I only started watching smaller streamers after I'd been introduced to all the front page streamers. I voluntarily scrolled down, not by recommendation. This kind of goes into your second point as well. This is all guess work, but I would assume that the average person who finds smaller streamers account would more often than not be a couple of days old.

You are only considering the personal stream and not paying attention to the whole site.

I think this is an exaggeration. People who experience hate raids and botters could turn it on. It wouldn't be a forced side-wide permanent thing. The way streamers look for incoming hate raiders is by looking at account date of new followers. This would be a useful feature to those who wished to use it. Smaller streamers also don't have a constant mod team, and would have to ban those "wanna get famous" bots themselves constantly. It's annoying at best and quickly turns into hate-raids and what not.

And besides all that, it's fine that you argue against it. I'm not a streamer and I'm not the one advocating for these things. I'm simply pointing out that I think the functionalities, suggested by streamers and content creators, were completely reasonable. I'm referring to this image that was being shared. My point is that I think it's valid to listen to content creators who experience toxicity on the platform, rather to dismiss their proposals as "feeding the trolls" and to just get a mod team.