I'm quite convinced that the person who wrote that code of conduct is entirely happy with turning people who take issue with that rule off the game - see the li

I'm quite convinced that the person who wrote that code of conduct is entirely happy with turning people who take issue with that rule off the game - see the linked Mastodon thread and it's linked thread giving the advice about any community management to "remove the people who don't like being there", and it would seem that in this case would include turning off people who are unable or unwilling to figure out the community norms without a detailed set of explicit rules that leave them plenty of room to push past the community norms by exploiting ambiguities or loopholes. Would you be happier about it if they didn't try to explain how they operated? Because most places mods finds way of "working around" the rules for behaviours they don't like but that may not technically violate rules. There's slack and ambiguity in any wording.