Personaly I would preffer also no streaming the first time, I mean, it fits better the MC, he seems kinda paranoid about the goverment and such. However, I feel the reason why the first streaming is essential is because that is how the MC gets in contact with BigDaddyHurts, this could be replaced with the MC posting some pictures of the bot in an anonymous forum asking for help and then finding about BDH.
However however, the first streaming is part of a ton of dialogues by now, and is probably coded into multiple events, replacing that first streaming for something else sounds like a ton of work tho.