it has grown to dislike the concept (or more what it perceives as being the implications of for many entities) of polycules a lot. There seems to often be this perception of a polycule being like some kind of club with like memberships (and sometimes even infrastructure (it thinks this one's polycule currently has more than four different SSOs, so lmao) and initiation rites) and like what? no?! being someone's partner doesn't imply any connections to third parties.
Also it kinda doesn't understand this desperate want for having one's partners be friends (or often even for them to be partners, like it got subjected to multiple weird hookup attempts and that always was just awkward), like sure having them not hate each other is good, having them be able to exist in a board game round together is more than it could ever ask for, and everything above that kinda isn't anything that concerns it.
Although this mostly seems to be an (often badly communicated) expectations thing.

Thanks for reading this unordered rant (and or hopes it didn't offend anyone, it at least didn't intend to)
@xyno What we've found is that polycules are best when allowed to be fluid with structures. Our whole polycule isn't a monolith. Certainly not all the over 20 people within 3 degrees of separation know one another. But there are some structures that form. We form a triad with two partners we live with. We share a long-distance relationship with one of those two. This forms a little square with a diagonal line across in the polycule chart, and this group tends to come together for a lot of things. But it was emergent and formed because each member chose to date the others, not because of expectation or coercion to be all dating one another.