> Care to elaborate why this gets downvoted?

There may be more people living in HOAs who don't have issues with their HOA than you anticipate. Such a person might well view the statement "HOAs are just pure evil" as incorrect, even if they are aware that HOAs can be a problem.

By way of example, I watched an HOA, as a community, successfully resolve a complex and potentially expensive legal matter involving multiple residents in a way that was beneficial to all parties. Part of this resolution involved the community as a whole, under the bylaws, amending the bylaws to address a situation the original drafters should have anticipated but did not. One side effect of the amendment was to reduce the demands the HOA itself could make of homeowners, lowering what were already quite reasonable limits.

"HOAs can be evil" and "HOAs can have over-reaching clauses" are different statements than "HOAs are just pure evil".