I don't need your advice. I understand you think you've got some useful view on this, but you're just uninformed. Which is why your perspective is "you went out of your way to find a thread were people don't have a high opinion of you and then started antagonizing them."
The mere fact that that's all you see from this tells me you don't have an opinion worth listening to.
Here's their "win" to you. I got downvoted, but they have no voice in the community, the rules they complain about move in the opposite direction of what they want, they're removed from the community I actually care about.
Which of their goals was accomplished? Am I not a mod? Nope. Did the rules change in their favor? Nope. Will they be able to discuss the rules they complain about? Nope. Can they post on the community I care about? Nope. But they did get to downvote me.
To you, that's them winning. Seems to be for them too. The part you are missing is, it is for me too. I actually got the things I wanted except honest discussion. While it sucks I can't get that from them, they're paying the price, not me. I still have all the power. They give up what little they had. If you want to call losing your influence AND moving your goals backwards "then they win" go for it, but I'm not buying it.