Yeah, that's a nope for me. I understand your view on this so it's not like I'm blaming you or anything, I also think that aggregators are a cancer so I get your point. But I already tried the "joining a discord server just to follow 1 specific manhwa" experience, because it was removed from MD (the Abandoned Empress), and I ended up dropping it in the end because of how annoying it was. So yeah, better just drop it right now instead.
Having to join yet another discord server knowing that I'll never ever post on it and will eventually receive random pings (for random announcements or "giveaways" and "events" like some TL groups like to do) is already too much for me. The reason why I like MangaDex in the first place is because everything is at the same place instead of having each of my mangas/manhwas scattered all across different platforms. I really can't be bothered to go through the trouble of joining a discord, just to check a website, just to follow one manhwa.
Thanks for the translation until now, but I'll just pray that another group pick up the translation on MD.