The reason Trump/repubs want it is because the main effect will be to reduce the number of left-wing voters so that they can steal the upcoming elections.
It always seemed like a bad idea to link everything to your Google account. Now I know people who won't leave Google purely for this reason. Glad you're working your way through it
A great painting isn't great because it looks great, its great because a human who thinks and feels like you do experienced and created it. Same for a song or a book or whatever. Reflecting and resonating with the creator's experience is fundamental to art. If you can't enjoy that level of art I feel sorry for you, because it's the most enjoyable part.
This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. "You have to keep your content on reddit because there's no strong alternative" just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can't keep supporting the beast.
If we're talking about making sure people can still find the solution you found to some obscure tech problem, all that matters is that it's indexed and findable on a search engine, not how many comments it has
Honestly I think it like great for what it is. I wouldn't actually play it or prefer it to normal Stardew, but functionally it's no worse than DOOM was.
Oregon trail millennial here, my first computer didn't have a mouse let alone Windows 3.1