Discord has been overall bad for the community, but it was inevitable. Everyone has an account, including those screaming about how terrible it is.
You can't really lay it at the feet of the official discord or the soccer discord, it began with the inner circle chat groups that evolved into inner circle discords, that evolved into soccer, that evolved into where are today.
It was inevitable because people wanted to talk outside of the game, and that's not really an evil impulse. People want to be together.
It did take some life out of vrchat, which sucks a lot, but it was just an inevitability in the end.

I abstained on the vote, didn't really care or see much point in getting involved.
Ironically, a lot of the people who currently rail against Discord were pro-discord when the official server was being discussed. Jelly specifically was a strong proponent of discord until he realized he wasn't getting a mod spot.