This is a great insight to minds of many oldies around RM. It's a different world now but we still get regular screenshots of Beloved Rapture and an occasional word on Monopolo. 

I enjoy the way you describe individual tropes and comparing them to what I know from my own experience. RM communities are unfathomable for outsiders, a weird word of projects and dreams, which is slowly disappearing (It disappeared years ago and I only found some remnants and similarities hidden in its new normality) as more and more originally hobbyist projects are being taken commercial, with official forum pushing for legal resources and the whole shift from something insular to something mostly vague and boring.

Code is magic.