Ah, what a tough path you've chosen, and you're doing it for so long. Your moral compass indicated this direction and you most likely would have been miserable taken the other way.
It is not about community, it is about ladders and hierarchy.
Isn't blockchain supposed to break away from the concepts of middlemen, ladders and hierarchies? It would be a shame if we use this revolutionary technology to build more of them on top of it. Then we are incapable of leaping forward yet.