This reminds me of when I filled in on a co-workers beer league softball team and got ejected for the most exaggerated and clearly joking around bat flip I've ever done. I literally didn't understand other people were taking the game seriously lol.
I played rec league kickball maybe once with some friends a long time ago but the behaviors were too much.
It was something that was fun at first and then people actually started caring and it led to weird arguments.
The same thing happened in basketball. I played a couple of seasons but knew I was done my last year when I started to sit the bench most of the game voluntarily. I usually would play as much as possible to get a good work out but a couple of guys took it too far and it was just too toxic.