No! There can be agreements, different tribes/communities, codes of honor; all of that in a constant flow of change. And first and foremost: Responsibility.
The call for rules comes from people being used to being ruled. The making of rules comes from people being greedy and power-hungry.
The "rules" as you call them are all emergent within the decentralized system. The blockchain does not enforce them, at all.
The entire debate is all just human disagreement being enabled by a decentralized system.
Hive watchers should be disbanded and a new emergent something allowed to emerge from the decentralized system. There is nothing decentralized about Hive Watchers, and human drama has built up around it over the years and from the last chain.