People are emotional beings, and when they care about something but have opposite points of view, sometimes drama happens. Sure, it would be much better to have a logical debate and people admit when they are wrong, but at the same time, emotions play a role, conversations get heated, and people may start to see in them only what triggers them and respond to that.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion, because eventually both sides cool down (if they weren't already) and they will start to see the other side's point of view and possibly reflect on whether there is any merit to it or not. Emotion is good, because it shows that you care about something, in your own way, which may be different than how someone else cares about the same thing or the solutions others see as better.
Some serenity and meditation after drama sounds good, huh? 😄 Let's ask the AI how did she end up on that rock in the middle of the lake without getting wet, lol...
So, I believe even haters are better than... indifference. To hate means to have a reaction to something, even if that's a negative reaction. To be indifferent means to ignore it, to not know or care about its existence.
Hive has been treated for a long time with indifference especially in places where we could gather some awareness. We understand how that feels, what it means to be in an eco chamber. Maybe not as much indifference anymore, if I am able to read the "signs" correctly. That to me says we are doing something (I'd say more than one thing) right. It probably helps a lot that we started to build bridges (I'm not talking about one in particular) instead of being on our own isolated island.
Drama has a way of bringing forward things that maybe haven't been said before, or they were but nobody really listened. So yeah, a little bit of drama won't hurt, other than some egos, potentially. In such situations, to better see the points being made would be to exclude the persons talking (including themselves should do that, if they can), and read the points of view (impersonal). In enough dramas, you will find that both sides have some points worth listening to, or at least some frustrations caused by something else. The immediate context may be more favorable to one side or the other, but it's rarely about the immediate context, is it?
Sometimes a drama starts over a pretext (which can be a very powerful one), but the real reason behind it might be conceptual disagreements.
The way I see it, people with different, even conflicting ideas can be well integrated into a decentralized system, and the system itself benefit from all of them, in different ways. That, of course, may lead to dramas here and there due to the conflicting points of view and the personalities involved, some more malleable than others.