Can totally agree and usually the excuse is "well that's just the way business is if you want to keep sharing your message" "take the good with the bad" type stuff. I think there is some truth to that, but maybe we have better tools now it's just a matter of getting there.

I was mining in 2012-2013 before one of the first big price spikes (10-100 usd), difficulty soared and asics of the time became obsolete. I didn't know what I was doing and stepped out of the "community" I was pretty young anyway and didn't have the money to keep up. I got back into "bitcoin" media and stuff a few years ago and it's so much different that it was. And it seems like majority of the media was captured by suits. Just a strange observation from outside looking in. I don't think there are clear parallels to what bitcoin was back then other than most of the tools were hacked together with $0 in budget :)