I suppose Steve what you might need to consider is a situation where you are the receiver of this soft censorship.
Imagine that you came to place of free expression where people said we can talk about all the types of guitars we like and we can respect all music.
Then you find that they only like Taylors and they generally favour Modern Pop while consistently downvoting Jazz and blues?
You happen play blues.
You came in here gung ho and every time you make a fuss about it, you are told to stop being so selfish.
It's called gas lighting.
There is real shit going on that is contrary to what Hive is meant to represent.
The reason that many people came on here, invested their time and their money.
Thus the exodus.
I hope you can see my point.
EDIT: add to this scenario that, blues and jazz has been censored all on all other platforms around the world and there are very limited places where you can express it, find like minds and be appreciated.