That’s reasonable.....HOAs can be awful, or a God send - because people are people and people are flawed. But the notion of an HOA is neither inherently good or bad with respects to rights. It’s case by case.
In some states I'd say the notion of an HOA is inherently bad. This would include any state where the laws governing HOAs are so flawed that they expose homeowners in these organizations to legal risks that they may have never anticipated when they bought their homes.