You are kidding right?
Your premise is completely false.
A property owner who sells land to be divided up, then subsequently be purchased by those who now become property owners them selves has dictatorial power over new said land owners?
Please tell me you left off the sarc tag.
HOA"s are Agenda 21, read it.
The private property owner who owned the land that was subdivided into the lots. Anyone opposed to HOAs is basically opposed to private property rights.
You are kidding right?
Your premise is completely false.
The developer applies rules to all the lots, each both burdened and benefited. He selects the rules based on what will enhance the value the most for the buyers (maximizing his profits. It might be limitations on outdoor pets, or basketball hoops, or setbacks, or color schemes. Or an agreement to pay to maintain a pool or clubhouse, or airstrip, or gun range. That is all his right as a private property owner.
Then, he sells to willing buyers, who agree to abide by the rules, while benefiting from neighbors’ following the rules.
It is the sovereign power of a person over his own property. Anyone who thinks that they’d be enslaved by such dictatorial tyranny is free to buy elsewhere.