Yeah I agree.

It’s made me very intolerant of ads. It’s kind of surprising how much effort I will invest to avoid ads, and avoid supporting people who make a living from advertising revenue.

What you’re describing as an “issue” is just the way the fediverse works.

There’s no central authority that determines the ruling /c/gaming instance or whatever.

If you tried to create one then anyone could just fork lemmy to disregard the central authority.

Lemmy is not reddit, nor should it attempt to be.