I'm a tg player myself
I enjoy the medRP there, I really like some of their minor features (like the messages telling you when and why their other servers evacuate, their version of the endgame screen/scoreboard, etc) and I enjoy playing on the community that develops (and gets first) many of the features that end up being ported elsewhere later.
As for the more controversial changes, so far, I see most of them as positive or at the very least not that bad. Cloning removal was good imo, and the combat mode/intent change, well.. to me, it just feels pretty inconsequential, honestly. Probably a bit easier to explain to newcomers, not too hard to re-learn, but not that groundbreaking either. I'm more surprised at how controversial it is, honestly.
TG doesn't have a perfect reputation when it comes to the community and I know that, but personally, I had almost no issues so far. (Then again, I play their medRP server and don't really interact with the forums/discord). I've heard that Bee is like TG without some of the more controversial changes and with better community, though.