I think you misunderstand his meaning. I took it to mean causing them to leave the platform because of deliberately and punitively taxing their content. Also, making the content require clicking to reveal it disables certain automated uses.

Many things HW does are intended to produce emotional responses. HW does appear to be a mechanism intended to reduce Hive's user base. That has certainly been it's consequence. Enabling automation of data recording isn't spamming. I don't find any points of agreement with HW on this matter.

Also, the third sentence would be the secondary, or even tertiary complaint, since it followed the text I have quoted that also contained complaints. I think we will continue to disagree on this, and I don't think either of us will convince the other of our views, so I will find something else to do.