I disagree with basically everything you said here. But, much more importantly: if you're wholly uninterested in Dan's perspective on things, this place is probably not a great hang for you.
It’s been a fine “hang” for me for 13 years, it’ll be fine for another 13, most likely.
Also I think it's the literal definition of hubris to disagree with, "what may be tendentious to you is not to someone else" but I'm guessing you don't really care about hypocritical shit like that.
The idea that you have to share the same politics or perspectives as the mod is the problem, and promotes walled gardens and groupthink. The exact phenomenon of mods killing anything they disagree with is what killed reddit.
You do not have to share the same politics, and, moreover, you don't even know what his politics are. How I know that is, I don't even know what his politics are, and I've talked to him a bunch and am a little unhealthily curious about them.
Also I think it's the literal definition of hubris to disagree with, "what may be tendentious to you is not to someone else" but I'm guessing you don't really care about hypocritical shit like that.