I'll agree with you on this one. It's sad how things have turned out over the past couple of years and we lost a lot of good people with the split.
Hive is finally finding it's level and core group to build from new foundations but the split put us back a couple of years and it would have been great to see some of the old faces still here and building.
A lot of talent and lot of interesting people have left the community. Hopefully we might see some of them link back in over time when things have moved forward.