Any idea if this was just over-hiring? Twitch grew during the pandemic didn't it? Now viewership is going down.
Is it isolated case of a business normal ups/downs, and not some general "oh my god the tech sector is crashing".
This feels more like Twitch just really struggling financially, as mentioned in the article.
You have to be mindful of some edge cases, but if the scope is kept narrow, it's doable. The added benefit is the flexibility to fit it to your use case. And with Python, you get many high-level libraries, e.g. for decimal calculations and PDF generation.