As an ex-mod in the "old minehut times" and a current mod rn here are my opinions down below
The "kid-friendly" rules are there because of sponsorship companies for SLG and Minehut. Remember SLG partners with the likes of Nickelodeon and other children oriented services. They requested the rules it's not Trent's or the staff's fault. It costs a lot of money to run a server like Minehut more than I or any player will ever know. I don't feel restricting the use of swear words is silencing free speech. It's simply not that hard to type a msg without them. In the VCs I understand and most mods understand that it comes naturally while speaking so we tend to be much more understanding. I and many other staff would like to interact with the community more and we try our best to, but you guys must understand we are very busy managing not only our own social lives, school/work, and on top of that Minehut. People like to think the staff don't do anything but the truth is we do a lot 90% of it being unseen by the players. The job does effect us,
As for game modes we would like to try and bring better events and servers for users to play on. Benny and I were wanting to do Warzone Classic, but we need to find the right dev for the job. But right now fixing the bot and lobby spam problem is a pressing issue. The days of everyone knowing each-other are gone because Minehut has grown. I honestly am okay with that brings in fresh faces while keeping the old ones close. Plus now we're not some sort of unstable nuclear bomb of a community waiting to go off on each other anymore lol.