Before people get all worked up. This is certainly so that discord can maintain it's current rating "T for Teen" on the app stores. Apple likely got POed since

Before people get all worked up. This is certainly so that discord can maintain it's current rating "T for Teen" on the app stores. Apple likely got POed since Discord could be used as a work around for parental controls, and here we are. The right long term policy might be to have multiple apps or a feature to restrict NSFW access within the Discord app akin to Netflix, but to address the issue immediately, this is a reasonable short term policy. Don't forget an enormous user base are kids from 13-17, so this, in my view, is entirely reasonable until they sort out a longer term solution.