i'm a little confused as to why channel operators have been deprecated - if i need a stream to remain hot (using a channel), i can't use Flow and its operators

As does

receiveAsFlow

if you want to permit multiple collection

Yes, you can convert channel as flow. But flow also can be created hot, thought, now it limited, until we got SharedFlow

@gildor what do you mean it is limited?

StateFlow is also hot for example, but works only for some particular use cases