@LiteraryLady97 Well put. It's impossible for them to not know about the drastic downtime--the flood of newbies might be skewing those statistics, making it look like there's no downtime at all but I believe they know that too, just like they knew there would be backlash; I read most of it on their board a while back, including what you wrote--everyone was on the same page, except WP themselves. It all got blown off...looks like they didn't read a word of it and the responses given were to momentarily appease if not outright blind everyone.
I do still write when something comes to mind, already on notebook number 2 of work. Already did some covers for the new stuff--I hope I can get them transfered over when its time...I'd hate to have to redo them.