Is this a place I love? No. Not at present. It's a place I, for the moment, enjoy somewhat.
scans_daily was a place I loved. This is not, yet, scans_daily, despite having the name, mods and some of the same people. This place never has been scans_daily, it's a place people went to attempt to recreate it, and so far they have failed, IMHO, because they seem to be forgetting that a community is more than a name, mods and people. It can be all of those, yes (the first two far less than the last). But it's more. It is what we do, what rules we live by, and both of those have currently changed too much for me to consider it the same place (though I'm willing to consider it might one day be). Maybe even moreso than the people, sometimes. A book club can remain the same even if every individual member goes and is replaced, but it dies when it no longer reads books and instead goes fishing every week, even if the members are still there. If the rules we followed _need_ to change and stay changed in order for the community to survive, then the community has not survived.
Whether it's worthwhile to stay, despite it not being the same community depends on where it goes from here. And if "previews count towards a limit even if they're not posted here" became a rule (what this thread is originally about, not the rules in general), then it's not even 'worth it'. For me. And probably others of whom made up the 'people' part of the community we loved. But YMMV.
As to whether the community is, now, what it has to be, that's debatable. It's what the people who made it chose it to be (for the time being, until we hear more). I still feel there are/were better options. Going underground, making a flocked community, or just going somewhere else, and continuing to do so every time someone tries to smash us, patiently repeating the cycle, until it's no longer worth the effort either for us or them and one has defeated the other on the issue. But going down the path of capitulation to ridiculous demands, without a fight, because it's easier is not a path I support. There's always more ridiculous demands that they can decide we need to meet.