Sometimes I can't understand if people want Mastodon to be attractive for the general population or just for the people who already bought into it for ideological reasons.

I see lots of comments like "I like that there are no quote posts", "I like that search is limited", "I like that mastodon servers often shut down and force users to move to new ones".

There's nothing wrong with having that stance, but most people very much not okay with those things, and it's a bad platform for them.