What I don't understand is how people can deny that the discord pulling in a huge amount of people who have never been here is harmful. 

A very significant portion of the people in the discord have never been to 4chan and many are proud of it, so how is that not harmful to the original community of /vrg/? None of them are anonymous, most of them are redditors thru-and-thru. 

It absolutely isn't a /vrg/ discord and it should drop the branding and just stand on its own strength, it is more than capable of doing so.