Is anyone else feeling frozen out by M's online community recently?

Mods, feel free to delete this if it's a little too meta or off-topic, but I need to get this off my chest.

I've been a part of this community for almost five years now, and even in just this last half-decade, there's been a lot of heartache for M's fans to sift through. I remember when I first got here, it was halfway through 2017, and everything had gone wrong in a year many of us thought we could finally break through to the playoffs. Watching the birth of the Sog and putting faith in guys like Taylor Motter and Shawn O'Malley was certainly humbling. But it didn't matter — even if we sucked, we could meme about it.

Now, to anyone that's been here over that same stretch of time, it's kind of been a long time coming, and a lot of the regulars who were here when I first found this sub stopped posting and commenting years ago, citing a lot of the same grievances I have come to hold with this forum. But if the first years of the rebuild were rough, then I don't have the proper adjectives to describe what this last month has been.

For the first time in my life, I've found that watching the Mariners alone is the most preferable way for me to watch them, and following along with M's news is like watching cable news in wartime now — keeping up with what's new is starting to bring a sense of dread to a pastime that I usually find joy in.

I don't want to tell anyone that the way they root for their team is wrong — Lord knows I've made that mistake more than my fair share of times in the past, and I recognize that a lot of the hand-wringing around here comes from the same desire to see the M's succeed that I have. But I do want to express that for the first time, I actively feel as though the community around Mariners baseball is detracting from the joy I get in watching our team play, and I imagine I'm not the only one.

At the end of the day, baseball's a hard-luck sport with some RNG issues, and I think we get a little too hung up on things that are ultimately out of both ours' and our team's control.

ADDENDUM: I also recognize that there comes a point at which being optimistic turns into its own version of hostility. I've played a part in that in years prior, and that's not the kind of energy that made this sub great in the past, either. I just wish the dialogue in this forum could be more constructive and a little more lighthearted, because at the end of the day, we're here to have fun.