Banned is maybe too far, but why should we as a country allow people to have petty power over meaningless things their neighbors do? Could we ban HOAs from being included in house sales, and every time it's sold the new owners have to opt in?
For the most part, I'm wondering about this in the context of single family homes since for homes like condos, you could make the case that HOAs are useful for shared things like roofs and whatnot. Maybe limit mandatory HOA involvement to things like what's truly necessary and shared and not how tall your grass is?
Don't ban them, there are some good parts in there
Require yearly elections on who leads
Limit the power they have, especially with giving out citations
Don't allow to outsource the work. You want a HOA, you do the HOA. Those HOA companies are thr worst