Real. I was damn right.
The passive attitude could only work in a large and vibrant Community, full of motivated people. One can build that large and vibrant Community, or one can simply withdraw, but to build it you have to work for it, and then the conversation is much different.
CC’s position is not wrong per se, but the conditions necessary for it to work do not exist, have not existed, and I doubt that they will exist for a long time. So the healthy thing to do is to accept reality, and return to a safer position until better conditions exist.