Appreciate the comment.

Steemit.chat is my favorite thing about Steemit. I've made good friends there. Currently, it brings more engagement than Steemit does.

I like, and have been a proponent of, the communities feature on the Roadmap, and hope that it will bring more engagement and just plain fun to Steemit. But as it is right now I enjoy the chat.

Your second point is true, there's nothing stopping people from starting their own guilds. However, it shouldn't stop people from being critical of other guilds.

This is Steemit, we're critical of everything, hah, and I just haven't seen that many posts regarding this subject before, so I wanted to raise the issue.