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Discord probably did the math and are willing to take a hit to the user counts (much like reddit did when they closed the apis), as the vast majority will stay and keep "threatening" to leave. There's at least the hope that the ones who quit now will establish communities elsewhere, on a (hopefully) better server platform.
It probably also says something of the ones that stay: they can keep getting further exploited. And these are the ones they want.
Yep. It's why trumpers are such a lucrative scam target. It's a self selected group of easily deceived victims.
Same tactic used by scammers sending "bad" messages - it's at least partially in purpose to single out the good marks.