Yeah okay, I agree with all that, but once someone has established a pattern of harmful behavior, it becomes dangerous and naive to assume that they've changed without any sort of evidence.
We don't get to just assume Felix is a changed man just because he has the self-control not to drop hard-Rs on stream anymore, but he has to actually disavow those past actions as something more than just a "heated gamer moment."
He has to disavow the members of his fanbase who do believe that sort of thing is okay and that he's their guy because he'd say and do stuff like that.
He has to actually do something to show people he's better.
Alright, here's some basic advice for when you want to have a conversation.
If someone asks you a question that can be suitably answered with one or two words, it can be helpful to append a question of one's own to the response. Even returning the same question is often sufficient.
Consider:
X: Hey, how's it going?
Y: Good.
vs
X: Hey, how's it going?
Y: Not bad, yourself?
Where the former leaves person X having to either carry the conversation onwards by formulating another question on the spot or just disengage, the latter keeps the conversation going by giving them a question from which they can either springboard into a more detailed response or pivot to another topic.
Yes, you're right, but I think that was the point of that comment: to demonstrate to OP how single-word answers to questions aren't helpful when trying to engage in conversation, by mirroring their own behavior back at them.
just put the fries in the bag lil' bro