Then their supporters quit or delegated a bunch of SP out and lost their vote power.

Many of the people from the old days complaining about lack of support enjoyed blind support obviously as at the first chance to earn more, they were dropped in favour of voteselling. It never had anything to do with their content.

The complacency led to poor networking too I think, much like many of those who buy votes don't have real followers, only frontrunners. If they stop buying, they lose everything.

You should always be looking to see who is up and coming on the platform.

And what is up and coming.