and you can’t interact with them aside from chat that they’ll never read.

I'm moving on to another streamer if thats the case usually. I almost exclusively watch streamers that interact with chat heavily. Preferably ones so small that my messages almost never get missed. But larger ones that simply make an effort to read as much as they can are cool too. I've literally had private DM conversations with my #1 favorite streamer, but he streams to like 30 people on a good day lol.