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I don't think it's intentional, just a matter of people having built a community around their hobby and not finding it worth their time to talk to people who don't engage with it on their level. That and a light sprinkling of autism.
But the impetus is there because you need to know these people to be aware of the limits of what you can do and to get information on how to work around VRChat's weirdness. Most of them are shader authors as well, so you need to hang out in their Discords to figure out how to actually use every feature and not look stupid in your avatar.
Finally, those circles are where our own content creators went, because of all the pressures I listed plus the thread being hostile. These people are my friends, but I can feel them drifting away.