I'm not sure any of that answers my question. If I don't want a public or large community I'm not supposed to convert to community, okay, but I can still want thread channels for organizing information. They aren't useless for small groups of people, and the same is true for some of the other community-locked features.
And enabling community mode isn't necessarily the solution either. It comes with a bunch of dubious nonsense attached:
> Scan media content from all members: this will scan all media sent in the server and delete any content that contains explicit content
I don't trust an automated algorithm to make moderation decisions for me.
> Rules or Guidelines Channel
Useless in a private community.
> Discord may check the contents of your server to make sure it’s safe!
I don't need a paternalistic american tech company invisibly making judgement calls on what my private community does or doesn't do.