> I submit that it will only be a problem if one or more (so far it's
> been one) insists to make it a cause celebre

I contra-submit that it is a problem whether they leave silently or with 
flying banners. In both cases it is their contributions that I miss.

> Which of these is bad?

I don't think we disagree about the long-term goal. But we do disagree 
about the path.

And the other thing is that you talk a lot about newcomers. There is the 
experienced ones too. For me this list is a lot less interesting without 
Olin. Replace 'me' and 'olin' with other examples.

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