User blog comment:TrevorOntario719/Retiring from ESB 10.20.17/@comment-25764581-20171011204605/@comment-25583733-20171013201355

About your third point:

If the users/wikis leaving are less than the number of users gained from the change, it is not a bad change. We aren't really entitled to keeping the old Wikia, despite most of us believing we are (including me). Staff really run the place and do what's best for their company. We aren't paying them/doing work for them to get access to this website. They do whatever they want and most of the time we are just powerless in deciding. This is not a post praising all the good things Wikia Staff are doing. This is reality.