Jokes aside, I don't actually want Off Topic nuked. I make jokes about it because I think it's funny to have someone on the mod team be so openly against the site's most popular and loved category. The first post I made when I became Admin was me talking about
how I could finally nuke the category actually because I always joke about it whenever I can.
I will admit it's my least liked category though.
I love the forums format because it's... well, it's a forum. You can take time to respond, you can go read other threads and discussions and participate in discussions even if they're hours later. Group chats don't really provide that. It's answer now or don't at all.
However the Off Topic category is normally utilized as a group chat. People are focused about snippets of a more complicated discussion; such as short responses and discussions that lead to nowhere, and so on.
People aren't actually interested in reading anything over a sentence and they're not interested in getting a response late. Defeats the purpose of a forum format in my opinion, but I also don't blame people who prefer that format.
Off Topic is a necessary evil. I used to almost be only active in the Looksmaxxing category, but when I became a moderator I wasn't really active in that category anymore. All of the drama comes from Off Topic, all of the reports are related to Off Topic, all of users questions are in Off Topic, etc. Most of my time is spent in Off Topic, and so by the time I'm actually mentioned in anything looksmaxxing related, I'm too burnt out to answer how I used to.
It's unfortunate because I'm genuinely passionate about the subject, but I just don't have those dogs anymore.