Today I learned that muting not only disallows someone from posting to that front end, but also makes it so they cannot curate anything. I did not know about that last part.
I think the main issue here is that PoB muted someone and then all of the people who didn't know muting also took away curating are finding out about it, THAT is potentially bad optics for ALL Hive Engine tokens as they all have that ability. That is something I am concerned about, as well as some of the posts that markymark made recently showing Hive Engine token creators can just decide to inflate all tokens in one day if they decide to.
So overall there is some bad optics on Hive Engine not being as decentralized as it should be, I think that's where we should be focusing.