Sammy, I think you hit the nail on the head 100% with this. There is some clear abuse of power going on in the discord. The LMG community should be a place where people feel free to speak about things that interest them. People are being banned/muted for disagreeing with moderators over the simplest little things.
Not to name names, but there is a mod who very clearly breaks the rules about not going off topic. I will add, this admin/mod was the person who wrote this rule. Having a community like you mentioned must be awesome, everyone would be free to discuss anything they wanted to with no fear of being banned.
I remember about a year ago, someone was banned for openly discussing about them being suicidal. I can only imagine this was the opposite of helping this person on their road to recovery- and is potentially life threatening. Mods said that the Discord TOS is to BAN suicidal people- which is quite literally false.