I don’t have the same hopeful (and perhaps naive) perspective of p (and other admins you associate with) that you do, but his hatred for you seems completely irrational and ridiculous.

I think p basically represents “oldfags”, people that don’t want things to change or improve. I think he’s said, verbatim, that you’re destroying fedi by adding quote posts (lol). He deliberately goes out of his way to remove features to make it as unfriendly and autistic as possible so “normies” are put off. I think it’s good that you’re doing the opposite.

I won’t even go into p’s “free speech” policies because that would be a whole thing. (p.s. no google results allowed on “free speech extremist”).