I've been getting involved with LoRa mesh networking lately and there's a lot of that ham attitude there too but it seems to lean a bit more toward the hacker side of things, despite a healthy fear of the FCC enforcement mechanisms.

Considering the reach of a HAM radio, the limited frequencies, and the consumption of airtime while transmitting, someone needs to enforce etiquette.

Its also likely the older folk operating in HAM radio space, have a background in communication operations when HAM was a far more common communication device.

HAM is still awesome, I find it very interesting with the long distance, remote, communication challenges some people partake in.