Harthwain
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I am not so positive about this.A pluralism in opinion is worthwhile, even if I think some takes he has are abhorrent (equating claims of bad behavior as evidence for example or his anti-gamer aristocrat persona) but I think he is in general coming from a good place and his influence when it comes to gaming in general is positive, for the costumers.
It is actually one of those aspects where we can see that politics are one thing but gamers on all sides of the political spectrum have something to revolve around, and as long as that happens it's a net positive.
At this point pluralism is less "peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions, and lifestyles" and more "trying to scream the loudest which interests, convictions, and lifestyles are the most important ones (or arent')". Coexistence happens purely on a technical level (which literally boils down to "we can't exterminate/silence the other side") and you can forget about various sides having to reconcile their differences in order to accomplish something for the common good (like, the actual common good). So all it equals to is a bunch of echo chambers. I mean, you could say that having a few echo chambers is always better than having a single - imposed - voice, but that's not exactly what I'd call "a win". Sounds a lot more like "a lesser evil".
But I guess the main reason for this is being a reasonable person simply doesn't pay off. It's boring and more difficult, and you're not guaranteed to succeed anyway.