The "Mystery Box" is a technique (if it can really be considered such) I believe coined by JJ Abrams where, instead of having a clear plan for a story and working from that, they instead pepper in mysterious and intriguing tidbits with little-to-no explanation, and a lure that it will all be explained "eventually", stringing the audience along indefinitely. JJ has done this for every single property he's helmed, and never once has he provided a satisfactory resolution.
Stranger Things could be said to have had this in season 1, with lots of spooky, intriguing unknowns, but I think the creators at least had a decent idea of where they were headed by season 2. Unfortunately, being the finale, season 5 suffered from the breadcrumb practice of the prior seasons and had to shove all the unresolved lore in at once, which has put off a good number of viewers.
It's like the text predictor on your phone. If you just keep hitting the next suggested word, you'll usually end up in a loop at some point. Same thing here, though admittedly much more advanced.
What an entitled take. No community worth its space is "effortless". Building an actual, worthwhile community takes care and time, and that need never ends.
But what people really want in these hollow comparisons to Reddit is an infinite content machine - a place to go for an endless stream of mindless content that requires no effort on their part. It's purely selfish, and if those people are turned away by the "effort" required just to sign up, then good. Users like that are, at best, a burden, and more likely to sway these spaces into directions they're better off not headed.
Some people came to Lemmy to escape the overcrowded, hyper-capitalised swamp of Reddit. Others came because they thought the lack of singular oversight would let them act out however they want without consequence. I would presume OP is in the second category.
Your experience with people calling out Democrats in your first post may have given you the wrong impression - Lemmy doesn't have much of a right wing problem, but it does have an overabundance of leftists. You'll hear a lot of similar "fuck liberals" comments from them, but from the other end of the spectrum. You'll also find a lot of tankies here - leftists that unfailingly support violent, authoritarian regimes, mostly because they're a country other then the US or EU.
In short, you'll find the political inclinations of users here to be (possibly confusingly) diverse, if you stick around.
Them playing their hand to help him get elected didn't tip you off?