Thank you so much for the post! It also resonated very strongly with me, so I felt I might share my own disillusionment journey here, in form of a post I wrote but never published. I wrote it in early 2020 - I followed pretty much the path the OP describes, but decided “this community isn’t good for me”, as opposed to “I disagree with the guiding principles”, so I took a break from the community for around 2-3 years, dialed-down my expectations for impact, and am now back as something like “EA-adjacent”.
Thank you so much for the post! It also resonated very strongly with me, so I felt I might share my own disillusionment journey here, in form of a post I wrote but never published. I wrote it in early 2020 - I followed pretty much the path the OP describes, but decided “this community isn’t good for me”, as opposed to “I disagree with the guiding principles”, so I took a break from the community for around 2-3 years, dialed-down my expectations for impact, and am now back as something like “EA-adjacent”.