doesn't make it clear if the issue was the use or the discussion of such
That doesn't matter. We don't want any of the banned add-on crap here or at the Kodi forum. Period.
Most of us folks new to a product/forum aren't aware of all the nuances right off the bat.
Yeah, as if nowadays lots of people are seeing and using the Internet for the first time... Most of the folks are too lazy to inform themselves of forum rules whenever they register at a forum, even when they are made aware of forum rules. That is my experience as a Kodi forum moderator. It's like installing a new Windows program: "Next, Next, Next, Finished!". Most folks assume everything is allowed and all is honky-dory.
"Thanks to" the so-called piracy box sellers, youtube promoters and several uninformed journalists`, Kodi (and LibreELEC) was almost finished a few years ago. The superrepo repositories that are/were(?) present on your system do not install themselves. So forgive us/me for getting cranky whenever people are taking things like video piracy lightly. FYI, anything from 'superrepo' repositories, which have been around for a long time already, is considered contagious and malignant.
And yes, those 3rd party add-ons can cause havoc on your system because in LibreELEC, the only user is "root" (which is basically God-mode), and that can totally wreck your system without you even knowing it. Thus making it difficult to troubleshoot such setups. At some point, one developer created an unofficial add-on that removed other add-ons from a Kodi setup. Or took over your Kodi device for cryptocurrency actions. All fun stuff, right?
I'll end my rant here. I think you'll get the meaning.
