Hello, this is my first post as well.
About the "why do sane people still stick on that shithole of a site?" question, i would just say that the it's not as simple as it looks.
The thing is, there's kind of a niche of about late 20s/30 years old people that don't want to deal with imageboards and Reddit's layout, and only want to talk about videogames on an old-fashoned forum. And that's what Resetera still somehow manages to be: a decently sized videogame board with a decently large userbase, fast paced activity, a bunch of comunities that appear to be actually populated, and updated gaming news (yes, they're censored, but i guess that most people either don't know that or just don't care about a bunch of tiny, niche weeb or indie games anyway). So, if you avoid all the exceptional outrage ban-bait threads (and there's even a specific tampermonkey script that allows people to istantly hide every kind of dumb shit), there's still some kind of unironical "enjoyment" to be had from it.
It's kind of the same shit that happened with NeoGaf: the mentally ill lunatics have infiltrated and hijacked a traditionally appealing product and they're now forcing normal people to eat their shit up if they still want to be part of it.
Or just like what's happening with modern american focused entertainment, isn't it? "You want to see your favourite capeshit movie, isn't it? Here it is, but we've also shoved a bunch of cringey feminist and woke scene in it and shut the fuck up". "You want Star Wars, right? Here it is, but it's filled with diversity quotas, purple haired tumblerinas and monodimensional stronk womyn as protagonists and shut the fuck up". "You want your AAA western game, right? Here it is, but it stars a TOTALLY BADASS strong black woman with a giant afro, or some puropsely ugly white dyke as protagonist anyway so shut the fuck up". Etc, etc.
I don't know how good this place is for discussing videogames, it looks to be a fun place anyway, so i might give it a try i guess.