I think just discussing deprotection of it's own sake, or limitating the discussion on how each people is internally aligning with deprotection ("i think is good/bad/logically plausible w/e) is pure abstraction in the sense that is 1. a mere game of opinions, 2. a personal issue, and something that can change our inner convictions and overall stimulate our minds. I can't help but see this thread as game of human interests, a collective issue, something that can change the community, a reason to take immedite or atleast direct action.
Note that i tried to give some plausible (are they?) interests (learning, etc, but there could be more) that might or not (i just tried to see myself as a deprotector advocator and think on what i would get) be underlying on this issue. GhostWolf was the only deprotector advocator i think that gave some kind of interests, altough very general ("more sharing"). You could say that we got the "WHAT".
The only subject that can "act" for each and every (we, as mere individuals, all want to become the protagonist, but that is bullshit) human interest that you can think about is "the community" (be either your family, the classroom, this site, the Estate, the World), so mere opinions, justified with logic or ethical superiority, or not, will not help directly unto taking any action, hence that's why i called it abstract. You may only win in the realm of ideas i guess.
I'm pretty sure the authority here knows this all too well, in the end there is a lot of intellectual and moral relativism in politics and regulation, we want just to "function" after all, not becoming someone's omniscient and ideal "concept" of society. It's no wonder that those that are in politics, in the battlefield, are often more or less men and women of action, instead of raw intellectuals. They win in the tangible realm. They conquer.
We got the human interest thing. But "HOW" to satisfy those? And "HOW" to ponderate each and every one that exist with each other?. How to protect and respect the map authors will to protect it's LOAP2018withNudes.w3x masterpiece map, under its arbitrary conditions and overly pretentious exigencies (people can even deprotect it in the end, so why even bother, what you want to demonstrate to us map author?), while stimulating sharing among the users. But are these interests even contradictory actually? Can we, ie. stimulate sharing even more, or be more functional about sharing (read the final part of my previous post, the only thing worth mentioning) while protecting the personal will of people?. In the end all this is a matter of additional effort, as things are not that absolute and contradictory in the end. And if you continue including people interests, then even more people will be up to give that effort, as a self sustaining machine. I think the contest system here is a genius idea creating shared and efficient effort use among site moderators/authorities and the average "citizen".
As i see these things, i really think that the Hive achieves a decent balance (i said this also), but that's my opinion, and is also my opinion that, since your map is gonna be potentially deprotected, distributed, and even DESECRATED, then deprotecting in the end is a very worthless action, and in my life i hardly perform actions that won't result in something real, so instead of that i would just upload my map unprotected altogether, allowing people do whatever they want, i'm also aware that there are lots of people that are trustworthy and for me that totally compensates the fact that there is also miserable people. Then i will just live my life i guess. But that's me, and i won't even atempt to convince all of you.
All previosly said doesn't mean that people that complain about an issue are clueless (people that advocate protection can also look in the mirror here), in fact their apparent complains in form of absolute positions of "free the deprotection or die" or "gtfo deprotectors" that have an inherent interest in them, allows us to improve, to tinker with our existing resources, to develop even better rules, or to reinforce the existing foundations also, and in the end to channel efforts unto something more than an interchange of opinions. Ie. i don't have power here but, what about giving those deprotection advocators the responsability (formal or merely social) to make a catalog of deprotected (consented of course) maps and templates. The cost is a thread or a post, but also potential more work load for map reviewers, and the benefit are lots of useful information (for the thread starters also), at least, and maybe (surely) less uninformed deprotection atempts.