This I think is likely, as this observation has been made lots of times by many different people. I would like new mods, but, besides Shatter (who sometimes uses the forum drunk, so yeah) and Nevov (who doesn’t want to be mod), I can’t think of much who would make good mods
So for #2 (I am in fact going backwards, don’t question it) I would say most the people causing drama very much realize this they just don’t give a crap
Also extremely likely, as most the drama has popped up at slower times, so I would say it’s a mix of 1 and 3