Communities like this are ever changing and evolving...its simply a fact of life. You can't help keep a community fun and enjoyable if you don't stick with it which is why changes take place...people come and then they go. Someday the newer folks here now might be saying your exact words, its just a cycle. That said I am one who comes and goes and sure there are changes in the atmosphere but good knowledge and ideas have never stoped being spread from what I can see.