Oh no. Someone that is pretending not to understand what is going on and telling people that this is actually fine has flagged my comment.

Seriously. Either take part in the discussion and respond to the points being made/learn more or stop trolling. This is not the place.

the thing you're missing here is that some people have strong emotional attachments to their subreddit communities, to the point of considering it to be part of their identity. I was like this, once, many years ago, and while I can't quite understand why anyone would've stayed on an obviously-sinking ship this long, I can see where they're coming from.

the thing that should've clued you into this is how emotionally-charged and defensive the language used by these people is (let alone the desire to stage a virtual "protest"…)—once you see this pattern, it's easy to identify going forward.