I offered my two cents, but to be honest I don't really care that much. I'm liking it here, and plan to stay here, so long as it doesn't become a dumpster fire as well. I've always attributed it to mods and the knuckleheads in the Canada section, but it's a variety of reasons.
This is a quote from someone's post and I thought it was pretty accurate.
I'm not pretending to be a psychologist or anything, but it appears that the people who were generally focused more on the development and construction side were also the ones that were kinda middle of the road politically, and those are the ones who have left.
Those still left on this site seem to be either solidly left or solidly right, and will quickly discuss and debate any topic. I don't believe those people come here for development and construction updates, they come for the discussion and debate.
If development was what they were interested in, they would have left to SRC a long time ago. From a purely construction development aspect, it's 1000 times better than this site. They could replace the construction thread here with a link to SRC, and it would work wonderfully. This site has more threads about various other topics though. Topics that will keep the solid lefties and righties in discussion for a long time.
It's not meant to be a slight against any particular person (left wing or right wing) only an observation on the change in SSP over the last year or so.