It seems plausible that reasonable people might disagree on whether student groups on the whole would benefit from being more or less conforming to the EA consensus on things. One person’s “value drift” might be another person’s “conceptual innovation / development”.
On balance I think I find it more likely that an EA group would be co-opted in the way you describe than an EA group would feel limited from doing something effective because they were worried it was too “off-brand”, but it seems worth mentioning the latter as a possibility.
It seems plausible that reasonable people might disagree on whether student groups on the whole would benefit from being more or less conforming to the EA consensus on things. One person’s “value drift” might be another person’s “conceptual innovation / development”.
On balance I think I find it more likely that an EA group would be co-opted in the way you describe than an EA group would feel limited from doing something effective because they were worried it was too “off-brand”, but it seems worth mentioning the latter as a possibility.