this is pretty much the standard dumb stuff the WMF does. The community asks for an improvement, the WMF drags their feet and eventually releases garbage. The community complains, the WMF tells them to shut up and they all go on.

I never really had to much trouble with FPAS myself but there was an arrogance about him I found annoying.

I just read that Cassianto and schrocat are claiming retirement. Good, Wikipedia is better off without them. Tqo more gone that voted for my ban.

Well I didn't start editing until 2007 so I don't know what it was like before that.

To me it was mostly ok up until about 2014. That's when it really started to shift.

oh I'm sure. In the case of Rlevse we were working closely on some projects on commons and when Michael Maggs decided to indef me without discussion, Rlevse never came back. In the case of tiptoey, they asked Beeblebrox or Floquenbeam, I forget which, about my ban. They told them to F off, a couple ...

I could list a lot that have retired, not all good ones either.

Two I like that left due to bullying directly related to my case:
- Rlevse
- tiptoey

1 that should have been banned.
- bbb23 (only useful thing he's done in a decade).

you're right, or in cases like the Scottish wiki thats been in the news recently, a lot that have 1-5 editors, are biased, etc.

now they just need to start banning the ones that are the actual problems. Some examples include: anyone who's been on arbcom, anyone who works in the WMF T&S section, beyond my ken, binksternet, beeblebrox, floquenbeam, etc.

I'm actually considering submitting an unban request to the WMF myself once it starts. Not that I think it'll get approved. But it will givevme an opportunity to gain some understanding in how the process works.