DamnEasyzigzterForcing viewmodels on the entire player base because new players might get confused when watching a select few streamers is ridiculous.
You can't seriously use that as an argument for forcing vewmodels.
Why not? Plenty of streamers already get tons of people asking things like "Where is your weapon?" "Where are your hands" and all that shit.
When someone asks this on a stream they get told "it's a setting that allows you to turn your gun off" and 9 times out of 10 they then go "Oh, how do I use that?". This is the entire point of the community surrounding a stream chat or youtube comment. People asking questions is not a problem and I genuinely don't see how this can ruin people's experiences to the extent that they wouldn't continue watching the stream/play the game. The game even has other cues that tell people what weapon/class is being used such as weapon sounds, class portraits, the killfeed, and what projectiles are being fired.
Imo viewers being confused for the first time they watch a game can be a good thing because it leads them to pay attention to more subtle things in an attempt to understand what's going on and therefore gain a greater understanding of the game as opposed to just watching passively, removal of viewmodels also removes something that's inherently distracting to viewers as well as players and forces people to focus on what's actually going on ingame.