I've noticed that some people who were here before a contentious time that is followed by changes see the changes as being a diminishment, but a lot of the time, newer people see the changes as being for the better. I think how one perceives the changes is very subjective.

Many of the people who were agitiating for change in the year or so before I first joined have since been among the ones who have been unhappy about subsequent changes. People seem to prefer the Mudcat the way it is/was when they first joined, and that's how they want it to stay. The Mudcat is not a static thing. Just like a town that is experiencing growth, it can't be kept as it was when each of us first joined.