They have some rules I find annoying but most of their rules are sensible (like don’t build a fire pit below your deck and don’t block your neighbors driveway with your cars)

Everywhere I’ve ever lived, both of those are actual laws. This is like saying the HOA has rules against burglary.

But maintenance of communal property makes sense, and I’d join an HOA that had in its bylaws that it will never do anything other than that.