"It is my belief this community is being poisoned by greed, hatred and envy from the new userbase towards the old userbase."
^ yup. Lot's of envy and jealousy over what the first-timers have that the rest of us don't, and then it breeds into expectations and demands to take what they have. Lots of socialist communist psychosis going on.
Or just bad design with little or no decentralized governance ... oligarchs are not good stewards.