Agreed on the need for transparency and kindness.
Many folks fail to account for the fact that HiveWatchers was formed very rapidly during 'war time' after the hard fork that created Hive and while the methods are not 'awesome' they work and have worked ever since it started.
Just putting that out there and am not defending said methods... nor frowning upon them. It is simply an observation that I think is often omitted (overlooked) during the discussion about them.