As always, I have the utmost unqualified respect for your opinions and not having spent the time on the civil war threads in recent years will have to give the instances you cite full credence.
That being said, anyone leaving has my best wishes, even some that I crossed swords with, and the Opus author does not fall into the later category. Heck, I even wrote an Opus thread for Storm Orphan myself. I guess that knowing man's basic flaws and imperfectability as well as I do and wholly accepting them, I always keep a kind thought for the good that does survive unless I find none at all.
Well said.