My main was created in Oblivion, and she stealthed her way through the game, expansions, through Skyrim and into ESO. For the past 5 years in eso she's been quite happily robbing and assassinating Tam
If ZOS had replaced stealth detection with a sneak bonus (preferably as it was before), then we would both be happy. Everyone in this thread would be happy.
What the detect is best used for is finding the odd templar or sorc who went into stealth so they can go do a bio break (sarcasm). For combat it's pretty pointless.
Your train of thought doesn't make it to the station, as they kept the stealth radius on Khajiit. My theory is there's a dev at ZOS who's an unapologetic furry probably wears fur suits to the office