(Posted this in a comment and I wanted to repost an edited version)
I like Cohost as a social media platfrom. I think its a fun experiment, and has a good niche in the social media landscape.
However, I feel like some people are drinking the koolaid way too hard. I don't see why people act like Cohost's minimalist design is de facto correct. I also don't care for the moralizing vibes in certain people's take. There's such a huge difference between "this sites lack of numbers works for me and is what I want from a social media site" and "Cohost's way of doing things are innately better, and people are too addicted to twitter/mastadon/whatever". The latter inadvertently turns Cohost into an ivory tower that's largely ignorant and out of touch with the rest of the internet- It ignores the many normal use cases for social media.
I liked when people sold Cohost as a "third website", not the main social media platform but a more quiet side-site. I'm unsure why that line of thinking has been dropped.