I have no idea how one can come to the conclusion that more specfic dead threads is what we need.
If I have to dissect his thinking. He likely compared us to a mega forum of thousands of user, which would have its own categories and subcategories like anime, pc gaming, where each categories has their own set of users that will never ever talk to each other. And if there is something they want to talk about, they will create new thread, and old threads will be left for dead
He goes back to our forum and thinks why is it not the same. Why is this lawless land not divided, why is everyone staying in the same place.
My final thoughts on this matter, if you want this forum to grow out of vtubing drama, then create a non-vtubing category, make a PC gaming/anime/porn/racism
CATEGORY that is easily accessible from the home page, not a gaming/offtopic thread where it's hard to find, those are where you can get new users, people who have less interest in engaging in talk that already exists within the forum.
If you really want to copy those forums, then do it right, those forums don't have individual vtuber pages, and neither should we. Mods don't create threads in those forum, the user create threads in those forums and so should we. If you want growth, let it grow organically, not with an iron hand of fist. People don't enjoy getting fisted.
I know the gaming thread exists, I have talked in there before, but if you ask me how to open it without using the search button. I have 0 fucking clue where it is. I'd say there is enough interest for a gaming category to exists.