For me the best part of Adam's stream is finally having confirmation from someone with inside knowledge that Lydia was as much of a shit-tier producer as she seemed to be from the outside. In one of the last streams I watched where she was "over in the corner pushing buttons" some basic-ass audio issues happened that any competent producer would have prevented by actually doing their job correctly. Not Lydia, that shit went on for 10 minutes or more before she even noticed anything was wrong, and even then only noticed because people in chat were spamming comments about it.
Lydia always came across as the weakest part of the show and Adam's stream confirmed that to me. Tim's response has been predictably retarded; with Lydia gone it would be really easy to mend fences with Adam, something that would benefit both of them in the long run, but Tim has too much of an ego to admit that he handled all of that shit poorly.
He wasn't complaining about having to read articles, he was literally saying that it was beneficial to him as a person when he had do research to actually learn some shit in order to have some credibility when discussing various topics.
Based on what Adam said and how he said it, the abortion topic was just the last straw.
Imagine not only working with someone who is demonstrably incompetent, but you actually live with them. On top of that your boss is a dingbat who has been, at the very least, having an inappropriately close relationship with this incompetent garden tool. Even if the boss isn't actually fucking the brap hog she's so obsessed with the boss and obsequious that watching them interact is nauseating. So every day you're sitting there across from someone you not only don't have a lot of respect for due to how inept she is, she's also somehow managed to ingratiate herself well enough that painfully obvious fuck ups aren't getting her fired, she's constantly being creepy and gross towards the boss, the boss is either too scared to fire her or too stupid to realize it needs to happen, AND you live with them both and are constantly having to just not say anything about how fucked the situation is.
If someone Adam had a better working relationship with said something similar about abortion Adam would most likely not have responded the same way, but he's already having to hold his tongue about a shitload of things related to Lydia. Tim should have fired her a long time ago, that he didn't makes me wonder how far he went with Lydia.