I did not go there, but I know some who did when my church split. Some went to the cult like side, I stayed with the strict, but normal church. (normal compared to that). It was sad to see half the church split and get caught up in that.
I went to a church once that split over whether to have carpet or tile, then what color.
Just because people are Christians doesn’t mean they also can not be jerks.
There all all kinds of people, some you like and some you don’t yet we are to gather with believers on a regular basis, it strengths us all.
My daughter and sonIL went to a Baptist Church were he was the music leader, young guy lots of talent and wanted to liven up the worship. Oh, my goodness you would have thought the world was going to end when he went from hymnals to an over head screen (same songs). He just couldn’t stand that people where looking down instead of up.
He got a lot of grief, yet when they lost their twin boys, these same legalistic annoying people were there for weeks and weeks. They cleaned the apartment, brought food, prayed with them for strength, collected money so they could get away for a few days alone and grieve. They were still annoying and still legalistic, yet they came forward to help in a Christ like fashion.
Just because people are annoying is no reason not to go to church and gather with other believers, remember we will be spending eternity with them.