Meh. Size matters. When I was active on that site it was much smaller. There wasn't so much site traffic, nor did it require a lot of moderation to make it functional. It was run as a labor of love by people who otherwise had real jobs. Everyone knew everyone.
Then it got a lot bigger. Operating costs increased with traffic. It required more moderators and required more of them and site staff. It became a business in and of itself. You can like that or hate it, but that doesn't change the reality of it. I imagine this site would become very similar if it had the same level of traffic and exposure. I also imagine this site already strains the capacity of those who run it now, and also have full time jobs and lives they must attend to.

I vastly prefer this site because it is what the other was in the beginning. A small community of like-minded individuals who mostly know one another within at most two to three degrees of separation. But scale it up enough and the costs go up and the signal to noise ratio goes down, and you end up with pretty much the same site, with much of the same tactics to keep revenues rolling in.