Applied the 'no visual resets' rule to a 4-hour stream. AVD up 31%.

Sounds unrelated but it isn't. I used to change scene layouts constantly — thought it kept things fresh. Turns out every layout change was giving people a clean exit point.

Cut it to two layouts for a whole stream. Same content, same energy. Average view duration went from 19 min to 25 min. Chat was more active too, which I didn't expect.