Most GMS or I dare say all of them are pretty nice decent people. Devs themselves are objective and that might make them seem distant and indeed they are but overall they are ok, however the game they are developing encourages trolling-grieving-exploiting and being an all around asshole and thats something beyond contestation. So if we were to adhere to that one saying, actions speak louder than words, then I suppose devs aren´t... nice people, (cant risk getting banned myself for my glorious activism)
As for the topic, the MMO is the will of the developers and well I for one consider they threat us like an ant farm, we are being observed and watch how pieces of our world are in constant flux, since in the end its their world... Too bad this farm is heavily populated by bully ants who boarded the bully trains the owners have built.