It's very unfortunate that this happened, because streams are generally pretty shit. They are not as consistently entertaining as an LP is, and are also less about the gameplay, if that makes sense. Reading shitty chat and donations definitely doesn't help. Even good ones can't possibly contain as much fun-per-second as a really good LP most of the time, and the really good moments get lost unless they are clipped or turned into videos that I will pretty much always watch over the actual stream. LPs are a lot more dense in substance. there's not as much nothing going on.

There are good streams of course, but in many cases you can't possibly watch all of it unless you stop playing games or doing other things and make watching streams your main hobby. Though I guess you can just put them to the side and play the same game yourself at the same time.

Another problem with them is that you can't possibly go back and watch all the previous ones. So, streams are inherently much more disposable entertainment. Of course, other than the really good ones, again, that can be more like LPs. There are exceptions, there are some streamers that I really like, most of which post their stuff on YouTube anyway.