Lots of the old members here do not care for the new direction the show has taken and therefore have also not cared for posting on this site as much. Another big thing is that Marc & John had more of an insider aspect to the show and knew Roger and visited the show and took pictures and gave everyone knowledge they would have never gotten before from the show. Since Mike and Drew and the rest of the new regime took over it seems like neither Marc & John or Drew & Mike want to extend any olive branch and that's fine and also expected, but that also takes away from one of the great qualities the site used to have and also made some members stop frequenting as much.
Just my two cents.
You're hitting on something I think has genuine merit as a discussion point. I can, at least from where I sit, pinpoint the removal of Roger Dobkowitz as *the* day that I think this site really started to have issues with discussions going over the cliff. While a lot of people were very vocal about Bob's departure (occasionally to the point of overwrought hyperbole), in general, the site accepted it and moved on. Because it was ultimately Bob's choice, I assume.
Roger is a different case altogether. Because of Roger's clearly very evident love for the show, and his connection with the site, a lot of people reacted very, VERY strongly to his departure from the show what were far from ideal circumstances. Roger gave Golden-Road.net a level of access to the production of the show that's actually relatively rare in the business, and it speaks very highly of the kind of person Roger is. That connection, however, served to poison the well when he departed. The goodwill and personal investment that people had made in Roger-produced Price guaranteed a bad reaction when Roger's departure occurred. A lot of people were VERY angry, and hurt, and when people are angry and hurt they get vocal about it - and they also get hyper-critical of whoever replaces the person they had made an emotional investment in.
Meanwhile, you had folks who thought at least some of the vitriol being thrown Mike's way was undeserved. While Mike has made decisions of a questionable nature while producing the show, so did Roger, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. But an awful lot of people were SO vocally anti-Richards and anti-Drew (Any willingness to cut Drew slack went right out the window when Roger departed) that mountains of criticism emerged. And those who thought some of that criticism was undeserved began arguing with those who were critical.
It's been constant arguments ever since among the fandom. It started with the passionate pro/anti-Mike Richards arguments, and that passion has spread to virtually every other discussable facet since. Because there was such an emotional attachment in the original arguments, there was a stronger-than-usual need among those arguing to be right. And that obsession with proving one's own side of an argument has persisted to this day. Adding to the problem, new members see the "I need to be right at all costs" debate style, think that's how they need to behave, and join the fray themselves.