TvTropes started going downhill years ago; back around 2012, when Fast Eddie started getting egotistical about his status as owner of the site. Basically, he decided that the casual atmosphere TvTropes had operated with since the beginning was no longer good enough, and he wanted to turn it into something more professional. All tropes with references in their names were changed into something more generic, all expressions of personal opinion were banned, anything that could be considered even vaguely offensive was deleted, and anyone who expressed discontent with any of the changes he was making were immediately banned (myself included). If you're interested,
here's a blog post from around that time which goes more in-depth about the changes that were made.
No diversity of opinion has been tolerated on TvTropes ever since, and it's honestly not surprising that SJWs have control over the site now. After a few years of totalitarian rule, Fast Eddie resigned in 2014; putting in charge a couple of cronies who has similar ideas on how the site should be run.