why are people so resistant to constructive criticism about the game?

[Gula]

SE has enabled them. They have regularly banned players for "constructive criticism", and I mean that literally. Not someone saying it with an insult attached, "hey idiot do this.." So those "toxic casuals" assume their way is the right way, and if you dare say anything it's an immediate report to the GMs much of the time.

Rules will always be easy to abuse. Its not that SE is enabling anything, just that mods are efficient with dealing what is handed to them. They could be changed, and redone. But pettiness will always find a way.