I was here a lot before that last NB section shakeup, and there are a lot of people no longer here that I miss from it. That is part of the reason I have been scarce. But maybe I am back more now.

I think at the time there was a lot of B/NB inadvertent invalidation going on. With binary folks trying to force a one size fits all model on NBs when there is a need for us to experiment, compromise, and balance, which wasn't good. And NB folks in their slower, more winding paths, trying to find balance and compromises in their lives, triggering the binary trans folks, who often have had to fight against family or society trying to compromise when they absolutely cannot.
It does seem like the tensions are much lower and that is good!

Hopefully we can have the introspective weirdness and wandering through the unicorn forest and have everyone get along. As long as we can respect that there is no one size fits all solution, and that everyone's path is different it will be great. I'll adamantly defend NB as a legitimate thing to my binary friends, acquaintances, GT, and Endo, but with my next breath I will just as fiercely defend my binary brothers and sisters who must get to their endpoint with absolutely no compromises from those that try to make them compromise.
I also think even for binary folks a healthy non-binary section and perspective are a very good thing. Some people need a halfway point to figure themselves out and find their way along to the other side. (Or the social cover of moving slowly as their family adapts) And we must lovingly help them find their way to the binary-trans side. At the same time we need our binary brothers and sisters to understand and respect that NB really is a thing, and not force their own paths, endpoints, and narratives onto it.
I still consider myself NB, but I am lined up for for HRT and likely full social transition. But even if society sees me as female or a transwoman, I'll always have some options that binary people wouldn't, and there will be things that binary trans people MUST do, that I shouldn't do. I'd never have gotten so far with out this and other NB resources, at best I'd be stuck in an extremely bad dysphoric place, if alive at all. There needs to be more information out there, and GT's need to know more about it too.
I think labels can help us understand and help ourselves and each other better, if we don't take them too seriously and act lovingly. We just need to cling more tightly to the umbrella that we share than hair splitting that pulls us apart.
- Jaded Jade