Training : Chill VS Serious

Hello everyone, I’d like to get your opinions about this topic.

I’ve been training muay thai for about 2 years now, and changed club going into my third year. This new club is bigger, more well known, and also more professional.

The thing is that the previous club had a good vibe and was far more chill, something that is just absent from the newer one. The new club’s coach is very militaristic in his teaching, and I m pretty sure that man has never smiled once in his life. Now I do believe I will progress more here, but I don’t know how to feel about the vibe loss. Also I don’t plan to compete, at least not in the near future.

So you, personally, which type of club would you rather be training at ? Which one do you thing is the best (that depends on your goals, I guess) ?