They did not sign up to jump through hoops and build consensus outside the blockchain.

Yes, that would be nice, but it isn't what we find ourselves confronted with.

That was never the vision and can not be considered the best way to evolve peoples Hive experience.

The standard is: original content.
Not repeated original content.
Not copy/pasta.
Original content each and every time.

Should this be the standard?
You'd have to ask where they build the consensuses.
It was worse when you had to kyc for slack to get any attention.
I understand some of the 'more reputable' accounts were quite disrespectful of others in there, so many defectors are to be found, if you care to look.

I'd say that the slack no longer rules the consensus, now it is found in the discords.
As far as 'the community' goes, anyways, and not just the controlling interests of hive power.
They still do things privately to some extent.

I believe that this method of off-chaining issues that happen on-chain also sets up the game for all sorts of abuse (of a different nature than the spam and plagiarism everyone is worried about) as their is no level of consequence or accountability in the courts of discord for those administering it.

What would you like?
Men with badges and saturnalia robes?
Would that give you more confidence in what we are doing there?

Web 3.0 is the new wild west, nobody wants to kyc.
On hive you don't have to, your account suffices to take any reputational hits.

The discords are open, afaik you can scroll all the way back.
You can lurk and see exactly what is happening.
Many misperceptions would be avoided using this simple trick, but nope.
The people you do see commenting in those servers have crossed a barrier in the pursuit of an abuse free pool.
Not everybody is prepared to do that, but somebody has to be an adult in the room, eh?

We need a Hive where business owners can feel confident to build out their business's.

There is nothing wrong with the coin.
3sec confirmations, immutable in 10sec, 0 transaction fees, liquid stable coin traded on an internal dex, can be earned in relatively large amounts by creating original content, ties to multiple external dex's and defi options, soon™ @klye will give us secured loans.
Blogging rewards will be a small part of the hive once he does that and the defi aspects really begin to kick in, iyam.
Any serious business owner can be confident those aspects of the hive will persist.
Not so with the reward pool, many salivating at its elimination.

There is a crowd of people here, please them and you will grow hive rich, displease them and find out what proof of stake mining of hive is currently coded to be, a crab bucket.

Either you hang out with us flaggots, or you get no say in the consensus.
You could build your own group, but so far, that has not successfully displaced what we currently have, despite many attempts.
Tptb are also, largely, diamond hands, so this consensus is likely to stand until a wedge issue comes up to break it.

I really hope that what I'm saying acts as a wake up call for you and many others.

Ditto.