Pick back up the hobby you quietly dropped because someone called it lame. It was never theirs to cancel.

A single dismissive comment can end something you enjoyed for years, and it works because it arrives when you are unsure whether the thing is allowed. The person who said it has almost certainly forgotten. You kept the ruling and stopped, which is a strange amount of authority to hand to one offhand remark.

Go back to it without announcing anything. Give it an hour and see whether the enjoyment is still there. If it is, that settles the matter, and no one whose opinion ended it is around to be consulted.