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Valve have traditionally taken a hands-off approach to the communities surrounding its games; I would be surprised to see their name among the list and I like how they do things currently. Though I have experienced toxicity in CS:GO, it has been no worse than in other competitive games.

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It was better when people hosting their own servers was the focus (CS:S and CS1.6). This way you could find a nice community, with good moderators and rules that you liked, and settle in.

Nowadays you are just thrown in a blender with every other player.

That's exactly my feeling as well, a less-friendly player base is one of the unintended consequences of matchmaking

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