@kissane Thank you for doing this important work, it is indeed very important to hear these kinds of viewpoints and I do agree w/ some of the things said.
The whole CW thing has been quite annoying if a certain group of people come across your post w/out CWs. They come off as etiquette police & quite unwelcoming.
As for broken search, unfortunately not all Mastodon instances have that enabled, either because lack of resource or they don't believe it fits their community.