Reading through a lot of the posts in this thread, there are a lot of disingenuous and facetious posts about "FT being hardcore content" and "Discord servers being toxic elitists that gate the community".

I am in over a dozen of these communities and there is minor overlap in between all of them, as people have a tendency to want to stick to one prog / reclear community, but are free to join other communities to prog and clear with them.
Out of all of these only 1 or 2 of them are only interested in clears / reclears, of which they only hold runs once a week or have dispersed into the other communities.

Almost all of the public communities that welcome new players of all skill levels. The difficulty of Forked Tower is that of "Extreme" difficulty, not even Savage, however does have the problem of Chaotic Alliance where one person with the mechanic going into the wrong place can wipe all 48 people, or some janky moments where a role doing the thing a specific time with certain variables will wipe all 48 people. Almost every single one of the communities hold both public fresh and proglocked runs to help new players into the content and assist players already invested in the content at their prog points. None of the communities gatekeep people out of the content and only request you join voice chat (no talking required) so you can hear callouts and instructions / explanations.

Frustration over "Sniping" has always been an issue that should be remedied by this hotfix, because you are removing the time and frustration required to get into the instance and engage with the content. People get to play the game as opposed to trying to play the game. The other thread where someone complained that they were intentionally killed by a tank buster after sniping has had the raid leader actually turn up in the thread and provide their statement on what actually happened (Player was lying and was intentionally being uncooperative and refusing to communicate even though members of the community tried on multiple occasions to reach out to them). Getting wiped by the sniper who joins and doesn't know what they're doing is always a risk, and it is not the responsibility or the 47 other players to rez you if you are a liability who refuses to communicate.

Just because there are many of you in an MMO who are anti-social and difficult people who are professional victims does not mean that these communities are gatekeeping or being elitist about it - in fact the complete opposite. I've seen players who struggle with MSQ / normal raids take part in the runs, yes they're on the floor a lot, but in no way are they unwelcome from runs that correlate with their prog point. If anything almost every single FT community is not gatekeeping, but throwing the gates wide open and providing an avenue in which anyone can engage with it - you just simply have to ask, and you will be invited in.