having to face lower quality arguments without nuance along with trolling or having to face low interaction rates, or ridiculous beehive charades of argument chains too surreal to seem real,

Yep. And at times, that and worse from mods.

As per the

all the “bad diversity” has been removed

effect.

Gate-keeping. Groupthink of the mods.

Though, lets remember, this is still the fediverse. It's not a monolith where the mods are the mods. Mods some communities are worse, some are better, and we can always start our own communities and host our own instances.

Robust enough against lemmy being "dead", like @goat@sh.itjust.works said.