People have a lot of things going on in there lives so the breaking point for those guys may have been aided by outside forces
They started by complaining about bot votes and the trending page, then the devs, it was pretty ugly and bitter to be honest.
I'm so flippin' swamped now, even though I'm not really posting much, I still don't have the spare time to work on building my biz... it's like a horde of client mosquitoes heh heh...