Yes, unfortunately. livestreamer has not seen any upstream development in quite some time and there are related bug reports in its Github Issues already. I deem it unlikely that there will be an upstream release that fixes your issue anytime soon.
However, there is a project called "streamlink" [1], which is an active fork of livestreamer. streamlink is not yet in Debian, but includes an adapted debian/ from livestreamer. If you're looking for a replacement, I guess this is your best option. [1] https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
