Honestly, I think many are quitting due to real life issues. It's tough to justify an amount of time spent on a computer game when the mortgage isn't payed.
The others, well, many vets remember how it was. When there was honor and fun to be had by all. You know, you used to be able to rearm without constantly scanning for a single 190 diving down from 13K to vulch the rearm pad. I had three people try that in the past week alone.
People used to let damaged birds flap their way home.... now 5 guys are killshooting themselves to nail the one guy who's wrestling his joystick to keep it level.
The community used to police itself, and mold each newcomer into the honor code that was the game. That is long gone now.
I seriously wish HT would take away the kills announcement. So many of these new guys are just trying to get a "SYSTEM: IdiotMoron landed 3 kills", and not learn how to fly and fight.